The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 7
_Learn from my fate not to take pity on a scoundrel.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: learn, not take, fate · To what, where: fate, pity, scoundrel
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 Learn | punct |
| 2 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 fate | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Learn | obl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Learn | advcl |
| 9 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 scoundrel | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 scoundrel | det |
| 12 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | my fate | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fate=Source | ||||
| 2 | not take | to-infinitive | you not said here | pity | a scoundrel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on scoundrel=Destination | |||
| 3 | fate | my | nom fate «event 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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