Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 117
It is absurd to ape our betters.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, ape · To what, where: betters
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 absurd | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 absurd | cop |
| 3 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ape | mark |
| 5 | ape | ape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 absurd | xcomp |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 betters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | betters | better | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ape | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 absurd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | absurd property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ape | to-infinitive | our betters | 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: «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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