Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 66

That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”

Who acts: you, bell · What happens: carry, not be, avoid, order, mark · To what, where: bell, me, you, merit, disgrace

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bell), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believe	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 carry	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bell	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 believe	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 believe	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 not	punct
9	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 believe	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 order	punct
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 order	det
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believe	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 merit	case
15	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 order	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mark	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 mark	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 contrary	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 contrary	det
20	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mark	compound
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mark	det
22	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believe	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 disgrace	case
24	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mark	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 notice	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 notice	det
27	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 notice	amod
28	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mark	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 men	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 men	det
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 notice	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 avoid	mark
33	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 mark	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 avoid	obj
35	as	as	ADP	_	39 dog	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 dog	det
37	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dog	amod
38	mannered	mannered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dog	amod
39	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 avoid	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	carry	present	you	that bell			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	not is	present	that bell		me	any order of merit obl; believe property	tree rules
3	avoid	to-infinitive	that bell not said here	you		as a ill mannered dog	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent you=Location
4	order			merit			nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	mark			disgrace			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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