The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 23
_Do not let flattery throw you off your guard against an enemy.
Who acts: _, flattery · What happens: not let, throw off · To what, where: flattery, guard, you
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, flattery), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flattery | flattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 throw | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 throw | compound:prt |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 guard | nmod:poss |
| 10 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throw | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 enemy | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 enemy | det |
| 13 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throw | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | infinitive | _ | flattery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw off | infinitive | flattery not said here | your guard | you | against a enemy | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination guard=Theme |
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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