The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 8
_A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind.
Who acts: fine coat · What happens: not be · To what, where: indication
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine coat), 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 indication | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indication | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 indication | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 indication | advmod |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 indication | advmod |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 indication | det |
| 9 | indication | indication | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mind | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mind | det |
| 12 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mind | amod |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indication | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 indication | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a fine coat | a indication | of a attractive mind; always property | tree rules |
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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