The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 13

_Even the weakest may find means to avenge a wrong.

What happens: find, mean, avenge · To what, where: wrong

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	6 find	punct
2	Even	even	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 find	det
4	weakest	weak	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 the	conj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 avenge	mark
9	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wrong	det
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 avenge	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	find	may		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	avenge not said to happen	to-infinitive	a wrong	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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