Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 81
“Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.”
Who acts: you, danger · What happens: not travel, desert, approach · To what, where: you, approach
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, danger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 travel | advmod |
| 3 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 friend | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deserts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 deserts | nsubj |
| 8 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travel | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 travel | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 approach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 approach | det |
| 12 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travel | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 danger | case |
| 14 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approach | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not travel in a quote | imperative | you not said here | you | the approach of danger | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | |||
| 2 | desert in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | approach in a quote | danger | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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