The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 18
_Self-help is the best help.
Who acts: Self help · What happens: be · To what, where: best help
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Self help), 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 | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 2 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Self | punct |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 help | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 help | amod |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Self help | the best help | 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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