The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 9
_A fool may deceive by his dress and appearance, but his words will soon show what he really is.
Who acts: fool, words · What happens: deceive, show, be, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass in the Lion's Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, words), 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 deceive | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fool | det |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deceive | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 deceive | aux |
| 5 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dress | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deceive | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 appearance | cc |
| 10 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dress | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 show | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 show | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | aux |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 show | advmod |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 deceive | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 is | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 is | nsubj |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 is | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | may | a fool | by fool's dress and appearance | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | future | fool's words | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | present | fool | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word | fool | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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