The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 20
_Do not let anything turn you from your purpose.
Who acts: _, anything, your · What happens: not let, turn, purpose · To what, where: anything, you, purpose
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, anything, 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 | _ | _ | 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 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 turn | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | infinitive | _ | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | anything not said here | you | your purpose | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme from purpose=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | purpose | your | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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