Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 14
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
Who acts: Happy man · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: Happy man, misfortunes
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 (Happy man), 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 learns | nsubj |
| 6 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 misfortunes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 misfortunes | det |
| 9 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learns | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 others | case |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 misfortunes | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Happy man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | present | the Happy man | the misfortunes of others | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from misfortune=Source |
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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