The Aesop for Children, The Young Crab and His Mother, sentence 2
You should always walk straight forward with your toes turned out."
Who acts: You · What happens: walk, turn out · To what, where: toes
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Young Crab and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 walk | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 walk | advmod |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 forward | advmod |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 walk | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 toes | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 toes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walk | obl |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 toes | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | should | You | with your toes; always, forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn out | participle | your toes not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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