Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 107
Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition.
Who acts: extravagant theory · What happens: assert · To what, where: excited much opposition
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 (extravagant theory), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 theory | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 theory | det |
| 3 | seemingly | seemingly | ADV | _ | 4 extravagant | advmod |
| 4 | extravagant | extravagant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 theory | amod |
| 5 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asserted | punct |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 asserted | advmod |
| 8 | roundly | roundly | ADV | _ | 9 asserted | advmod |
| 9 | asserted | assert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 theory | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opposition | punct |
| 11 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 opposition | amod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 opposition | amod |
| 13 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asserted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 theory | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assert | participle | such extravagant theory not said here | excited much opposition | roundly, thus property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «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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