The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 8
_In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
Who acts: _, we · What happens: quarrel, lose · To what, where: substance
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, we), 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 | 3 quarreling | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 quarreling | mark |
| 3 | quarreling | quarrel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 shadow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shadow | det |
| 6 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quarreling | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 lose | advmod |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 substance | det |
| 11 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quarreling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | gerund | _ | about the shadow | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about shadow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | we | the substance | often property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Eventuality |
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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