The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 9
_Too much attention to danger may cause us to fall victims to it.
Who acts: much attention · What happens: cause, fall · To what, where: us, victims, attention
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much attention), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 cause | punct |
| 2 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attention | amod |
| 4 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attention | nmod |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 cause | aux |
| 8 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 cause | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fall | mark |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cause | xcomp |
| 12 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fall | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fall | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | may | much attention to danger | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | to-infinitive | much attention to danger not said here | victims | attention | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to it=Result |
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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