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title: _The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. Who acts: evil doer. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 8

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\_The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

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**Who acts:** evil doer · **What happens:** come, harm · **To what, where:** own deceit

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil doer), 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:pg19994:97:8
# text = _The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	doer	doer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the evil doer |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **harm** | to-infinitive | the evil doer *not said here* |  |  | doer's own deceit |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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