The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 14
_Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.
Who acts: _, you · What happens: not play, stand · To what, where: tricks, neighbors, same treatment
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork. 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 play | advmod |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 neighbors | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 stand | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | aux |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 play | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treatment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 treatment | amod |
| 15 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obj |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 stand | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | infinitive | _ | tricks | your neighbors | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand a condition, not said to happen | can | you | the same treatment | yourself obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus |
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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