The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 8
Otherwise, I should advise you to try some other profession."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: advise, try · To what, where: you, other profession
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 (I, you), 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 | Otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 5 advise | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Otherwise | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 advise | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 advise | aux |
| 5 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 advise | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advise | xcomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 profession | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 profession | amod |
| 11 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 try | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advise | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 advise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | should | I | you | otherwise property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | some other profession | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profession=Eventuality |
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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