The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 19

So be thankful, my child, that you escaped with your life, and, as long as you live, never judge people by their looks."

Who acts: you · What happens: be, escape, live, not judge · To what, where: people

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 thankful	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 thankful	cop
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 child	nmod:poss
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thankful	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 escaped	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 escaped	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 escaped	nsubj
10	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 life	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escaped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 judge	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 judge	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 judge	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 live	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 live	nsubj
21	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 judge	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 live	punct
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 judge	advmod
24	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	parataxis
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 judge	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 looks	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 looks	nmod:poss
28	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 judge	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		thankful property	tree rules
2	escape	past	you		with your life	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	present	you			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not judge	infinitive		people	by people's looks; long property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value

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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