The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 9
_Be not greedy for a little passing pleasure.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey. 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 | _ | 4 greedy | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 greedy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 greedy | advmod |
| 4 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 pleasure | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pleasure | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pleasure | amod |
| 8 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleasure | compound |
| 9 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greedy | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 greedy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative | you not said here | for a little passing pleasure; greedy property | tree rules |
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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