The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 18
_Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.
Who acts: Foolish curiosity · What happens: lead
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foolish curiosity), 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 curiosity | punct |
| 2 | Foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 curiosity | amod |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 vanity | cc |
| 5 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curiosity | conj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 lead | advmod |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 misfortune | case |
| 9 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | Foolish curiosity and vanity | to misfortune; often property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to misfortune=Patient |
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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