The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 14
You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."
Who acts: You, yourselves · What happens: have, ask, blame · To what, where: yourselves
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, yourselves), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 asked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 yourselves | advmod |
| 12 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 have | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 blame | mark |
| 14 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 misfortunes | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blame | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | yourselves | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blame | to-infinitive | yourselves not said here | for your misfortunes | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for misfortune=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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