The Aesop for Children, The Mole and His Mother, sentence 9

_Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few other things as well.

Who acts: you, one thing · What happens: find, lack, boast · To what, where: you, that

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one thing), 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	_	2 Boast	punct
2	Boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 thing	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Boast	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	aux:pass
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Boast	acl
11	lacking	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 found	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 lacking	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 things	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 things	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lacking	conj
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	11 lacking	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Boast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	future · passive		you		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	lack	gerund	you not said here		that	tree rules
3	boast		one thing			nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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