The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 10
_Be wise and shun the quack.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, shun · To what, where: quack
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shun | cc |
| 5 | shun | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wise | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 quack | det |
| 7 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shun | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shun | infinitive | you not said here | the quack | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent quack=Location |
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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