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title: A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be friend… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be friends with me!" Who acts: fellow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 13

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A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be friends with me!"

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**Who acts:** fellow · **What happens:** blow, not be · **To what, where:** same breath, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:136:13
# text = A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be friends with me!"
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | a fellow |  |  | the same breath |  | hot *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | can | a fellow | friends |  |  |  | with me | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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