The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 6
Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search."
Who acts: you, your · What happens: spare, leave, search · To what, where: energy, spot
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | Spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 energy | det |
| 3 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spare | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Spare | conj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | unturned | unturned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leave | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 search | nmod:poss |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unturned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spare | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | imperative | you not said here | no energy | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent energy=Asset | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | you not said here | no spot | unturned property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||
| 3 | search | your | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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