The Aesop for Children, The Porcupine and the Snakes, sentence 10
_Give a finger and lose a hand.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, lose · To what, where: finger, hand
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Porcupine and the Snakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 finger | det |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lose | cc |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a finger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | you not said here | a hand | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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