Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 18
Don’t make much ado about nothing.
Who acts: you · What happens: not make · To what, where: much ado
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), 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 make | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ado | amod |
| 5 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 ado | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | imperative · do-support | you not said here | much ado | about nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ado=Product |
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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