The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 12
_Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Who acts: _ · What happens: help · To what, where: those, content
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. 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 | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 helps | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 help | nsubj |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | _ | those | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | help | present | content | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
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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