The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 13
_Learn from the misfortunes of others.
Who acts: you · What happens: learn · To what, where: misfortunes
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox. 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 | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
| 2 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 misfortunes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 misfortunes | det |
| 5 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Learn | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 misfortunes | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | the misfortunes of others | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from misfortune=Source |
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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