The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 13
_Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.
Who acts: Gentleness · What happens: win · To what, where: force fail
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gentleness), 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 Gentleness | punct |
| 2 | Gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 win | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 persuasion | cc |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 persuasion | amod |
| 5 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gentleness | conj |
| 6 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fail | advmod |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fail | compound |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bluster | cc |
| 10 | bluster | bluster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 force | conj |
| 11 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 win | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | Gentleness and kind persuasion | force fail | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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