Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 25
The truth is, of course, that Æsop's Fables are not Æsop's fables, any more than Grimm's Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales.
Who acts: Fables, Fairy Tales, Grimm · What happens: not be, be, tell · To what, where: fables, fairy tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fables, Fairy Tales, Grimm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 of | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fables | mark |
| 9 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fables | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Æsop | case |
| 11 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fables | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fables | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fables | advmod |
| 14 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fables | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Æsop | case |
| 16 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 is | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 more | punct |
| 18 | any | any | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 fables | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 tales | mark |
| 21 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Grimm | case |
| 23 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Tales | amod |
| 24 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tales | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tales | cop |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 tales | advmod |
| 27 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 tales | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Grimm | case |
| 29 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tales | amod |
| 30 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 more | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Æsop's Fables | Æsop's fables | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Grimm's fairy tales | ever | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell | Grimm | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:25.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/25/