The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 11
_Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Who acts: _ · What happens: not count, hatch · To what, where: chickens
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 count | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 count | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 count | advmod |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 count | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 hatched | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hatched | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hatched | aux:pass |
| 10 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 count | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | infinitive | _ | your chickens | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hatch | present · passive | chickens = chicken | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |
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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