Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 120
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
Who acts: desire · What happens: involve · To what, where: loss
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 desire | det |
| 2 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 involves | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 benefits | case |
| 4 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 benefits | amod |
| 5 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 desire | nmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 involves | advmod |
| 7 | involves | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loss | det |
| 9 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 involves | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 blessings | case |
| 11 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blessings | amod |
| 12 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 loss | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 involves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | present | the desire for imaginary benefits | the loss of present blessings | often property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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