Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 50

We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.

Who acts: We, our · What happens: have, try, escape, trouble · To what, where: better bear, troubles

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 troubles	nmod:poss
6	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
7	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	9 try	cc
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 bravely	fixed
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 escape	mark
11	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 try	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 escape	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	We	better bear	tree rules
2	try	infinitive	We not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	troubles = trouble	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_Location
4	trouble		our		nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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