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title: _A change of habits will not alter nature. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _A change of habits will not alter nature. Who acts: change, habits. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 6

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\_A change of habits will not alter nature.

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**Who acts:** change, habits · **What happens:** not alter, change · **To what, where:** nature

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, habits), 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:pg19994:36:6
# text = _A change of habits will not alter nature.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	alter	alter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **alter** | future | a change of habits | nature |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient |
| 2 | **change** |  | habits |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event 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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