Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 102
At whatever time he wrote his version of Æsop, by some strange accident it seems to have entirely disappeared, and to have been lost sight of.
Who acts: A.D, it · What happens: write, seem, have, disappear, lose · To what, where: version, strange accident, sight
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (A.D, it), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 version | nmod:poss |
| 7 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Æsop | case |
| 9 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 version | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accident | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 accident | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 accident | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 accident | amod |
| 14 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seems | nsubj |
| 16 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 accident | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seems | xcomp |
| 19 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 20 disappeared | advmod |
| 20 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lost | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lost | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lost | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrote | conj |
| 27 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sight | fixed |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | A.D | A.D's version of Æsop | time | by some strange accident | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme | ||
| 2 | seem | present | it | some strange accident not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | disappear | participle | entirely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | A.D not said here | sight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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