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title: _Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few other things as well. Who acts: you, one thing. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mole and His Mother, sentence 9

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\_Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few other things as well.

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**Who acts:** you, one thing · **What happens:** find, lack, boast · **To what, where:** you, that

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one thing), 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:pg19994:142:9
# text = _Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few other things as well.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
11	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lack** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | that |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **boast** |  | one thing |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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