Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 126
The two chief existing English versions of Æsop are those by Archdeacon Croxall, and by the late Rev. Thomas James, canon of Peterborough.
Who acts: two chief · What happens: exist, be · To what, where: English versions, those
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 (two chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 chief | nummod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 those | nsubj |
| 4 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 chief | acl |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 versions | amod |
| 6 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 existing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Æsop | case |
| 8 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 versions | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 those | cop |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Archdeacon | case |
| 12 | Archdeacon | Archdeacon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 those | nmod |
| 13 | Croxall | Croxall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Archdeacon | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 James | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 James | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 James | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 James | det |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 James | amod |
| 19 | Rev. | Rev. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Thomas | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 James | compound |
| 21 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 those | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 canon | punct |
| 23 | canon | Canon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 James | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Peterborough | case |
| 25 | Peterborough | Peterborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 canon | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | gerund | the two chief not said here | English versions of Æsop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the two chief | those | by Archdeacon | 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: «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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