The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 16
_Do not try to gain favor by acting in a way that is contrary to your own nature and character.
Who acts: _, way · What happens: not try, gain, act, be · To what, where: favor, way
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 try | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 try | advmod |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 gain | mark |
| 6 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gain | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 acting | mark |
| 9 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gain | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 acting | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 contrary | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 contrary | cop |
| 15 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 nature | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nature | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nature | amod |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 contrary | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 character | cc |
| 21 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nature | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | infinitive | _ | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | gain not said to happen | to-infinitive | _ not said here | favor | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | act | gerund | _ not said here | a way | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a way | to your own nature and character; contrary property | tree rules |
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.
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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