The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 6
_Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.
Who acts: fun · What happens: stop, think, not be · To what, where: cause · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fun), 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 stop | punct |
| 2 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 stop | advmod |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | xcomp |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 cause | mark |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fun | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cause | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cause | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 cause | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cause | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cause | det |
| 13 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 unhappiness | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 unhappiness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 another | case |
| 17 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cause | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | always property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a | may | your fun | the cause | of another's unhappiness | tree rules |
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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