The Aesop for Children, The Swallow and the Crow, sentence 5
Show a little pride!"
Who acts: you · What happens: show · To what, where: little pride
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 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pride | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pride | amod |
| 4 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Show | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | a little pride | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pride=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/138/5/