The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 13
A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be friends with me!"
Who acts: fellow · What happens: blow, not be · To what, where: same breath, friends
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fellow | det |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blows | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cold | cc |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hot | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 breath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 breath | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 breath | amod |
| 11 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obl |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 friends | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 friends | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 friends | cop |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 friends | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | a fellow | the same breath | hot property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is a | can | a fellow | friends | with me | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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