The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 13

_Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you.

Who acts: enemies · What happens: seize, attack · To what, where: excuse, you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemies), 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	_	5 seize	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 enemies	nmod:poss
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seize	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seize	aux
5	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 excuse	det
7	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seize	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attack	mark
9	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 excuse	acl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 attack	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	future	Your enemies	any excuse					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme
2	attack	to-infinitive	Your enemies not said here	you					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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