The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 12

_It is easy to be brave when there is no danger.

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 easy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 easy	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 brave	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 brave	cop
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 is	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brave	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 danger	det
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						brave property	tree rules

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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