The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 8
_Act in haste and repent at leisure--and often in pain.
Who acts: _ Act · What happens: repent · To what, where: leisure
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ Act), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Act | compound |
| 2 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 repent | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 haste | case |
| 4 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Act | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 repent | cc |
| 6 | repent | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 leisure | case |
| 8 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repent | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 pain | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pain | cc |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 pain | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pain | case |
| 13 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repent | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repent | present | _ Act in haste | leisure | tree rules |
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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