The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 10

_Do not be too hard to suit or you may have to be content with the worst or with nothing at all.

Who acts: _, you · What happens: not be, suit, have, be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Heron. 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	6 hard	nsubj
2	Do	Do	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 _	flat
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hard	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 suit	mark
8	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 suit	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 content	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 content	cop
15	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 have	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 worst	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 worst	det
18	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 content	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 nothing	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 nothing	case
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 content	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 nothing	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	infinitive	_	hard property	tree rules
2	suit	to-infinitive	_ not said here		tree rules
3	have	may	you		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	you not said here	with the worst; content 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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