Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 5
In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.
What happens: avoid, take, not fall · To what, where: one evil, care, another
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 avoiding | mark |
| 2 | avoiding | avoid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 care | advcl |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 evil | nummod |
| 4 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 avoiding | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 avoiding | punct |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fall | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fall | mark |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 fall | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | gerund | one evil | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent evil=Location | |||||
| 2 | take | must · passive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not fall | to-infinitive | into another result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into another=Result |
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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