The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 17
_Greediness leads to misfortune.
Who acts: Greediness · What happens: lead
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mouse and the Weasel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greediness), 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 Greediness | punct |
| 2 | Greediness | greediness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | nsubj |
| 3 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 misfortune | case |
| 5 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | Greediness | to misfortune | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to misfortune=Patient |
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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