Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 86
Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
Who acts: Evil companions · What happens: bring, hurt · To what, where: more
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 (Evil companions), 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 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 companions | amod |
| 2 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 more | acl |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 profit | case |
| 7 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Evil companions | more | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurt | participle | than profit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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