Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 41

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

What happens: be, turn · To what, where: circumstances, good account

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 wise	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	cop
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 turn	mark
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	csubj
6	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 account	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 account	amod
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wise property	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive		circumstances		good account			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent circumstance=Theme to account=Trajectory

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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