The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 9
_The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him.
Who acts: mouthed boaster · What happens: mouth, not impress, frighten, know · To what, where: those, boaster
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouthed boaster), 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 | _ | 9 impress | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boaster | det |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouthed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 loud | punct |
| 5 | mouthed | mouth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boaster | amod |
| 6 | boaster | boaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impress | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 impress | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 impress | advmod |
| 9 | impress | impress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 frighten | cc |
| 11 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 impress | conj |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 frighten | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 impress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mouth | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not impress | present · do-support | the mouthed boaster | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | frighten | infinitive | the mouthed boaster not said here | those | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | know | present | boaster | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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