The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 13

_It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Who acts: question · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: one thing, something, question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Belling the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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	_	5 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 done	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 matter	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 matter	cc
15	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	18 matter	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 matter	det
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 matter	amod
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	appos
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 matter	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	question	one thing	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	should · passive		something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	do	to-infinitive	question not said here	question	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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