The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 14

_Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.

Who acts: wind · What happens: yield, be, resist, destroy · To what, where: folly

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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	_	2 Better	punct
2	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 yield	mark
4	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Better	advcl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 folly	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 folly	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 folly	cop
8	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yield	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 resist	mark
10	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 yield	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 resist	punct
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 resist	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 resist	mark
14	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resist	conj
15	stubbornly	stubbornly	ADV	_	14 resist	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 destroyed	cc
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 destroyed	aux:pass
18	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 resist	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	yield	to-infinitive				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	wind	folly		tree rules
3	resist	to-infinitive				tree rules
4	resist	to-infinitive			stubbornly property	tree rules
5	destroy	infinitive · passive				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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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