The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 12
_Do not stop to argue with temptation.
Who acts: _ · What happens: not stop, argue
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stop | advmod |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 argue | mark |
| 6 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 temptation | case |
| 8 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 argue | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | infinitive | _ | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | _ not said here | with temptation | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with temptation=Co-Agent |
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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