The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 16
Whatever it is, it is wisest to keep at a safe distance."
Who acts: meal · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: Whatever
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wisest | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Whatever | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whatever | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wisest | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wisest | cop |
| 7 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wisest | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 distance | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distance | amod |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wisest | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wisest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | meal | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | meal | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | at a safe distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
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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