The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Goat, sentence 10
_An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.
What happens: prompt, not be · To what, where: invitation
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 11 accepted | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 invitation | det |
| 3 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 invitation | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 selfishness | case |
| 6 | selfishness | selfishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prompted | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 accepted | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 accepted | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 accepted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 accepted | aux:pass |
| 11 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prompt | participle | a invitation not said here | by selfishness | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | not is | present · passive | a invitation | accept 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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