The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 10

_We are often not so eager for what we seek, after we have found it.

Who acts: We · What happens: not be, seek, find · To what, where: thief

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	7 eager	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eager	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eager	cop
4	often	often	ADV	_	7 eager	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eager	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 eager	advmod
7	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eager	obl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 seek	nsubj
11	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 found	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 found	aux
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 eager	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	We		eager, often property	tree rules
2	seek	present	we			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	present · perfect	we	thief		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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