Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 128

The fables are so padded, diluted, and altered, as to give very little idea to the reader either of the terseness or the meaning of the original.

Who acts: fables · What happens: be, dilute, alter, give, mean · To what, where: little idea, reader, original

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 (fables), 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	2 fables	det
2	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 padded	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 padded	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 padded	advmod
5	padded	padded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 diluted	punct
7	diluted	dilute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 padded	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 altered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 altered	cc
10	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 padded	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 give	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 altered	parataxis
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 little	advmod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 idea	amod
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 reader	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reader	det
20	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
21	either	either	CCONJ	_	24 terseness	cc:preconj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 terseness	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 terseness	det
24	terseness	terseness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reader	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 meaning	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 meaning	det
27	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 terseness	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 original	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 original	det
30	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meaning	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 padded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fables			padded property	tree rules
2	dilute	participle	the fables not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	alter	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	give	to-infinitive		little idea	the reader of the terseness or the meaning of the original		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent idea=Theme to reader=Recipient
5	mean			the original			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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