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title: That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.” Who acts: you, bell. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 66

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That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”

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**Who acts:** you, bell · **What happens:** carry, not be, avoid, order, mark · **To what, where:** bell, me, you, merit, disgrace

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bell), 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:pg21:5:66
# text = That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	mannered	mannered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | you | that bell |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | that bell |  | me |  |  | any order of merit *obl*; believe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | that bell *not said here* | you |  |  |  | as a ill mannered dog | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent you=Location |
| 4 | **order** |  |  | merit |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **mark** |  |  | disgrace |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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