The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 6

_It is wicked to take advantage of another's distress.

Who acts: It · What happens: be, take · To what, where: advantage

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	_	4 wicked	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wicked	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wicked	cop
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wicked	csubj
7	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 distress	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 distress	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 another	case
11	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advantage	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wicked property	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		advantage of another's distress					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=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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