The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 8

_The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

Who acts: evil doer · What happens: come, harm · To what, where: own deceit

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil doer), 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	_	6 comes	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doer	det
3	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 doer	amod
4	doer	doer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 harm	mark
8	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 comes	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 deceit	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deceit	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deceit	amod
12	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harm	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the evil doer					often property	tree rules
2	harm	to-infinitive	the evil doer not said here			doer's own deceit			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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