The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 8

_However unfortunate we may think we are there is always someone worse off than ourselves.

Who acts: we · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hares 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 (we), 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 unfortunate	punct
2	However	however	ADV	_	3 unfortunate	advmod
3	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unfortunate	ccomp
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 is	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 is	cop
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	ccomp
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 is	advmod
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 is	nsubj
13	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 someone	amod
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 worse	compound:prt
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 ourselves	case
16	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 worse	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unfortunate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	may	we						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	present	we			there		always, be property	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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