Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 104
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
Who acts: you, things · What happens: not attempt, not hide, not be · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, things), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempt | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 attempt | advmod |
| 3 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempt | xcomp |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 hid | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hid | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hid | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hid | cop |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attempt | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not hide | to-infinitive | you not said here | things | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is | can | things | hide property | 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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