The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 5
The most stupid of the three is not the one you would expect it to be."
Who acts: stupid, you, chance · What happens: not be, expect, be · To what, where: one, chance
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 (stupid, you, chance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stupid | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 stupid | advmod |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 three | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 three | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 one | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 one | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 expect | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 expect | aux |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 expect | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 expect | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the stupid | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | would | you | chance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | chance not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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