The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 11
_There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.
Who acts: many · What happens: be, pretend, despise, belittle
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pretend | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pretend | nsubj |
| 6 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 are | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 despise | mark |
| 8 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pretend | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 belittle | cc |
| 10 | belittle | belittle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 despise | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 reach | mark |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 reach | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 reach | cop |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 16 reach | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 reach | nmod:poss |
| 16 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 belittle | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pretend | present | many | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | despise | to-infinitive | many not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | belittle | infinitive | many not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | beyond grapes's reach | 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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