Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 113
1776, a Dissertation on Babrias, and a collection of his fables in choliambic metre found in a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
What happens: find · To what, where: choliambic metre, MS.
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: 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 | 1776 | 1776 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dissertation | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Dissertation | det |
| 4 | Dissertation | dissertation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 1776 | appos |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Babrias | case |
| 6 | Babrias | Babrias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dissertation | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 collection | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 collection | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 collection | det |
| 10 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dissertation | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fables | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fables | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collection | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 metre | case |
| 15 | choliambic | choliambic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 metre | compound |
| 16 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fables | nmod |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 metre | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 MS. | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 MS. | det |
| 20 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Library | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Library | det |
| 23 | Bodleian | Bodleian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Library | compound |
| 24 | Library | Library | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Oxford | case |
| 26 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Library | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 1776 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | choliambic metre not said here | a MS. | in the Bodleian Library at Oxford | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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