The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 10

_The least of our enemies is often the most to be feared.

What happens: be, fear

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	3 least	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 least	det
3	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 enemies	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 enemies	nmod:poss
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 least	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 most	cop
8	often	often	ADV	_	10 most	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 most	det
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 least	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 feared	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 feared	aux:pass
13	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 most	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 least	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						most, often property	tree rules
2	fear	to-infinitive · passive							vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»

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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