The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 21

_Take what you can get when you can get it.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, get · To what, where: interest

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 get	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 get	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	can	you		tree rules
3	get	can	you	interest	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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