The Aesop for Children, The Sick Stag, sentence 5
_Good will is worth nothing unless it is accompanied by good acts.
Who acts: Good, good acts · What happens: be, accompany · To what, where: nothing, Good
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sick Stag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good, good acts), 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 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | aux |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | cop |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nothing | amod |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 7 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 10 accompanied | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 10 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nothing | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 acts | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 acts | amod |
| 13 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 accompanied | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | Good | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accompany a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | good acts | Good | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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