Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 120
They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: act, fall · To what, where: unsuspected danger
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 act | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 act | nsubj |
| 3 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 5 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | amod |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 act | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fall | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fall | aux |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 fall | advmod |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 act | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 danger | case |
| 12 | unsuspected | unsuspected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 danger | amod |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fall | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | eggs = egg | without sufficient thought | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | future | eggs = egg not said here | into unsuspected danger result; often property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into danger=Result |
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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