The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 9
Follow my example and you will get along beautifully."
Who acts: you, my · What happens: follow, get along, exemplify · To what, where: example
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 example | nmod:poss |
| 3 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | my example | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get along | future | you | along, beautifully property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | exemplify | my | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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