Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 28
If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
Who acts: men, Tortoise · What happens: have, wish, ruin · To what, where: all, Tortoise
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 (men, Tortoise), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ruined | advcl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ruined | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ruined | aux:pass |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 ruined | advmod |
| 12 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | men | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | Tortoise | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | ruin | would · passive | Tortoise | often property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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