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title: _The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who kn… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him. Who acts: mouthed boaster. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 9

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\_The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him.

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**Who acts:** mouthed boaster · **What happens:** mouth, not impress, frighten, know · **To what, where:** those, boaster

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouthed boaster), 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:pg19994:58:9
# text = _The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	mouthed	mouth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	boaster	boaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	impress	impress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mouth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **impress** | present · do-support | the mouthed boaster |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **frighten** | infinitive | the mouthed boaster *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer |
| 4 | **know** | present |  | boaster |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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