The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 12

_Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.

Who acts: you, big things · What happens: take · To what, where: care

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, big things), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Take	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 things	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	conj
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 take	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care				of the little things	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of thing=Initial_Location
2	take	future	the big things	care				of things = thing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of themselves=Initial_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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