Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 19
The fabulist is to create a laugh, but yet, under a merry guise, to convey instruction.
Who acts: fabulist · What happens: be, convey · To what, where: instruction
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 (fabulist), 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 fabulist | det |
| 2 | fabulist | fabulist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 create | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 create | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 create | mark |
| 5 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 laugh | det |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 create | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guise | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 guise | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 guise | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 yet | punct |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 guise | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guise | det |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 guise | amod |
| 15 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 create | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 convey | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 convey | mark |
| 18 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 create | conj |
| 19 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 convey | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 create | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the fabulist | create property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | convey | to-infinitive | the fabulist not said here | instruction | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic |
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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