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title: _Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune. Who acts: Foolish curiosity. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 18

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\_Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.

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**Who acts:** Foolish curiosity · **What happens:** lead

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foolish curiosity), 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:pg19994:4:18
# text = _Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | Foolish curiosity and vanity |  |  |  |  | to misfortune; often *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to misfortune=Patient |

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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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