The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 12
_Do not foolishly ask for things that would bring ruin if they were granted.
Who acts: _, things · What happens: not ask, bring, grant · To what, where: ruin, things
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 (_, things), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ask | advmod |
| 4 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 5 ask | advmod |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 granted | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 granted | aux:pass |
| 15 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bring | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | infinitive | _ | for things; foolishly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | would | things | ruin | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grant a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | things = thing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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