The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 18
_Bluff and threatening words are of little value with rascals.
Who acts: Bluff · What happens: threaten, be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluff), 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 Bluff | punct |
| 2 | Bluff | bluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 value | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 words | cc |
| 4 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Bluff | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 value | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 value | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 value | amod |
| 9 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rascals | case |
| 11 | rascals | rascal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 value | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 value | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Bluff and threatening words | of little value; with rascals | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/18/