The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 11
If it is not decided soon, the honey will not be fit for anything.
Who acts: honey · What happens: not decide, not be · To what, where: Ant
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honey), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 decided | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 decided | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 decided | advmod |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fit | advcl |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 decided | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 honey | det |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fit | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fit | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fit | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fit | cop |
| 13 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 anything | case |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 fit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not decide a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | Ant | soon property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | future | the honey | for anything; fit 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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