The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 7
_Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.
Who acts: Those, they · What happens: have, want, lose · To what, where: plenty, more
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, they), 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 | _ | 2 Those | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 want | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 want | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lose | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 lose | advmod |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | conj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lose | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||||
| 2 | want | present | Those | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive | Those not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | they | all property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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