Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 33
The best intentions will not always ensure success.
Who acts: best intentions · What happens: not ensure · To what, where: success
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 (best intentions), 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 | 3 intentions | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 intentions | amod |
| 3 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ensure | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ensure | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ensure | advmod |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 ensure | advmod |
| 7 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ensure | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ensure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ensure | future | the best intentions | success | always property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition success=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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