The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 14

_Expect no reward for serving the wicked.

Who acts: you, reward · What happens: expect, serve · To what, where: reward, wicked

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, reward), 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 Expect	punct
2	Expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reward	det
4	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Expect	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 serving	mark
6	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 reward	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wicked	det
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 serving	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	imperative	you not said here	no reward					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
2	serve	gerund	no reward not said here	the wicked					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Attribute

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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