Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 86

Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.

Who acts: fault, MAN · What happens: be, see, fault, fail · To what, where: faults, others

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fault, MAN), 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	Hence	hence	ADV	_	7 quick	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quick	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quick	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 quick	mark
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 quick	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quick	cop
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 quick	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 faults	det
11	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 others	case
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 faults	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blind	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blind	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 blind	advmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 blind	cop
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 blind	advmod
19	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quick	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 failings	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 failings	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 failings	amod
23	failings	failing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blind	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fault			hence, quick property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	fault not said here	the faults of others			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fault=Stimulus
3	is	present	fault not said here		yet	to MAN's own failings; blind, often property	tree rules
4	fault			others			nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient
5	fail		MAN				nom failing «state 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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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