The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 6
But just take a look at yourself, and then try some of your own medicine.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: take, try, medicine · To what, where: look, some
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 take | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 yourself | case |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 try | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 try | advmod |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 try | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 medicine | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 medicine | amod |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a look | at yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at yourself=Asset | |||
| 2 | try | infinitive | you not said here | some | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | medicine | your | nom medicine «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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