The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 17
_A resemblance to the great in some things does not make us great.
Who acts: resemblance · What happens: not make · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resemblance), 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 | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 resemblance | det |
| 3 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 great | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 great | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 resemblance | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 great | obl |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | a resemblance to the great | us | great property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |
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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