The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 6

_A change of habits will not alter nature.

Who acts: change, habits · What happens: not alter, change · To what, where: nature

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, habits), 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	_	8 alter	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 change	det
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alter	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 habits	case
5	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nmod
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 alter	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 alter	advmod
8	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alter	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 alter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not alter	future	a change of habits	nature					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient
2	change		habits						nom change «event intransitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/36/6/