The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 15
_Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: be, better, seek, change, condition · To what, where: condition
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, your), 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 | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 better | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | aux |
| 6 | better | better | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 condition | nmod:poss |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 better | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 seek | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seek | nsubj |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 change | mark |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seek | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | better | can | you | your condition | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot condition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | change not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | condition | your | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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