Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 80

It is far more becoming to go straight forward.”

What happens: become, go · To what, where: child

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 becoming	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 becoming	aux
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 becoming	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 becoming	advmod
5	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 becoming	xcomp
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 forward	advmod
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 becoming	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 becoming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present · progressive		child				far property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive						forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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