The Aesop for Children, The Crow and the Pitcher, sentence 7
_In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.
Who acts: good use · What happens: help out, use · To what, where: pinch, us, wits
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Crow and the Pitcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good use), 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 pinch | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pinch | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pinch | det |
| 4 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 use | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 use | amod |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wits | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wits | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nmod |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pinch | acl:relcl |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 help | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pinch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help out | may | a good use of our wits | a pinch not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | use | our wits | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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