Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 140

The necessity of a new and improved translation the Editor then recognized, and would have willingly undertaken.

Who acts: necessity · What happens: improve, recognize, undertake

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 (necessity), 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 necessity	det
2	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recognized	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 translation	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 translation	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 translation	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 improved	cc
7	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 new	conj
8	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 necessity	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Editor	det
10	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 recognized	nsubj
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 recognized	advmod
12	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 undertaken	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 undertaken	cc
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 undertaken	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 undertaken	aux
17	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	18 undertaken	advmod
18	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 recognized	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	improve	participle	the necessity of a new translation not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	recognize	past	the necessity of a new translation	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	undertake	would · perfect			willingly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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