The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 21

_Flattery is not a proof of true admiration.

Who acts: Flattery · What happens: not be · To what, where: proof

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flattery), 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	_	6 proof	punct
2	Flattery	flattery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proof	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proof	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 proof	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 proof	det
6	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 admiration	case
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 admiration	amod
9	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proof	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 proof	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Flattery	a proof				of true admiration	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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