The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 10
_It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.
What happens: be, yield, come · To what, where: stubbornness
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 yield | mark |
| 6 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 yield | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 misfortune | case |
| 11 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 stubbornness | case |
| 13 | stubbornness | stubbornness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | yield | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | stubbornness | to misfortune | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to misfortune=Initial_Location through stubbornness=Destination |
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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