Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 22
The continual observance of this twofold aim creates the charm, and accounts for the universal favour, of the fables of Æsop.
Who acts: continual observance · What happens: create, observe · To what, where: charm, twofold aim
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 (continual observance), 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 observance | det |
| 2 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 observance | amod |
| 3 | observance | observance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creates | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 aim | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 aim | det |
| 6 | twofold | twofold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aim | compound |
| 7 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 observance | nmod |
| 8 | creates | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 charm | det |
| 10 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creates | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accounts | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accounts | cc |
| 13 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 creates | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 favour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 favour | det |
| 16 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 favour | amod |
| 17 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accounts | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fables | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fables | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fables | det |
| 21 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 creates | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Æsop | case |
| 23 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fables | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 creates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | present | the continual observance of this twofold aim | the charm | of the fables of Æsop; accounts for the universal favour obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Result | |||
| 2 | observe | this twofold aim | nom observance «act 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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