Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 26
But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct.
Who acts: fable · What happens: be · To what, where: things
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 (fable), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 things | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fable | det |
| 3 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 things | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tale | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | compound |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fable | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | cop |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 11 distinct | advmod |
| 11 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fable and the fairy tale | things | tree rules |
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:pg11339:26.
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.
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