The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 25

_If you try to please all, you please none.

Who acts: you · What happens: try, please · To what, where: none

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 try	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 try	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
4	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 please	mark
6	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 none	det
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
10	please	please	INTJ	_	11 none	discourse
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 please	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	you						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	none					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus none=Experiencer

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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