Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 137

He has already within the last few months been connected with one edition of Æsop, and it may seem strange that he should be willing to undertake the superintendence of another.

Who acts: editor, it · What happens: have, connect, seem, be, undertake · To what, where: few, superintendence

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 (editor, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	already	already	ADV	_	2 has	advmod
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 last	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 last	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	xcomp
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 connected	nsubj:pass
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 connected	nsubj:pass
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 connected	aux:pass
10	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 last	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 edition	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 edition	nummod
13	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 connected	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Æsop	case
15	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 edition	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seem	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seem	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seem	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 seem	aux
20	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 connected	conj
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seem	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 willing	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 willing	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 willing	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 willing	cop
26	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 strange	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 undertake	mark
28	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 willing	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 superintendence	det
30	superintendence	superintendence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 undertake	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 another	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 superintendence	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	editor		last property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	connect	participle · passive		few	with one edition of Æsop	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with edition=Co-Patient
3	seem	may	it		strange property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	should	editor		willing property	tree rules
5	undertake	to-infinitive	editor not said here	the superintendence of another		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent superintendence=Eventuality

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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