The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Reflection, sentence 7
_It is very foolish to be greedy.
Who acts: bone · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bone), 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 | _ | 5 foolish | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 foolish | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foolish | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 foolish | advmod |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 greedy | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 greedy | cop |
| 8 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 foolish | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bone | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | bone not said here | 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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