The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 20
_Those who try to deceive may expect to be paid in their own coin.
Who acts: Those, Dog · What happens: try, deceive, expect, pay, coin · To what, where: own coin
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, Dog), 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 | _ | 2 Those | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 deceive | mark |
| 6 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 expect | aux |
| 8 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 paid | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 paid | aux:pass |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 expect | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 coin | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coin | amod |
| 15 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | expect | may | Those | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Those not said here | Dog's own coin | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | coin | Dog | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=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.
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