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title: _A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind. Who acts: fine coat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 8

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\_A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind.

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**Who acts:** fine coat · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** indication

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine coat), 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:pg19994:68:8
# text = _A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	indication	indication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | present | a fine coat | a indication |  |  |  | of a attractive mind; always *property* | 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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