The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 9
"You pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at your feet!
Who acts: You · What happens: pretend, read, fail, not see, be · To what, where: future, stars, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 read | mark |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretend | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 future | det |
| 7 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stars | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stars | det |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fail | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fail | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 fail | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 fail | nsubj |
| 15 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretend | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fail | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 feet | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 feet | cop |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | ccomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend in a quote | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | read in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | the future | the stars | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Topic | |||
| 3 | fail in a quote | present | you | yet | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | your feet | 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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