Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 42
Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not be, change · To what, where: hurry, one evil
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. 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 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurry | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurry | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hurry | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hurry | det |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 change | mark |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurry | acl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 evil | nummod |
| 10 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 evil | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | you not said here | a hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | you not said here | one evil | for another | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent evil=Theme for another=Co-Theme |
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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