The Aesop for Children, The Swallow and the Crow, sentence 4
Why don't you dress better?
Who acts: you · What happens: not dress
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow and the Crow. 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dress | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dress | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dress | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dress | nsubj |
| 5 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 dress | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dress | present · do-support | you | good property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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