Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 25

The ‘ainos,’ as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof, veiled, either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of the Æsopian fables, we find it to be the same.”

Who acts: name, ainos, occurrence, we, travestie · What happens: denote, be, veil, happen, have, find · To what, where: admonition, reproof, fear, beasts, ancient account, name · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (name, ainos, occurrence, we), 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 ainos	det
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 ainos	punct
3	ainos	aino	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 find	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ainos	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ainos	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 denotes	mark
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 denotes	nsubj
9	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 admonition	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 denotes	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 admonition	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 admonition	det
13	admonition	admonition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ainos	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reproof	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 reproof	cc
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 reproof	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reproof	det
18	reproof	reproof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 admonition	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 veiled	punct
20	veiled	veil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 reproof	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fear	punct
22	either	either	CCONJ	_	24 fear	cc:preconj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 fear	case
24	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 veiled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 excess	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 excess	det
27	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fear	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 frankness	case
29	frankness	frankness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 excess	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 love	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 love	cc
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 love	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 love	det
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fear	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 fun	case
36	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 love	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 jest	cc
38	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fun	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fiction	punct
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	42 fiction	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fiction	det
42	fiction	fiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 veiled	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 occurrence	case
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 occurrence	det
45	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fiction	nmod
46	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 occurrence	acl
47	among	among	ADP	_	48 beasts	case
48	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 happening	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	65 find	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 find	cc
51	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	53 have	advmod
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 have	nsubj
53	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 find	advcl
54	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	58 account	det
55	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 account	amod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 authentic	cc
57	authentic	authentic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ancient	conj
58	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 have	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	62 fables	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 fables	det
61	Æsopian	æsopian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 fables	amod
62	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 account	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 have	punct
64	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 find	nsubj
65	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 find	obj
67	to	to	PART	_	70 same	mark
68	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 same	cop
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 same	det
70	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 find	ccomp
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	65 find	punct
72	”	"	PUNCT	_	65 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	denote	present	travestie's name				vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	present	the ainos and a admonition not said here	a admonition			tree rules
3	veil	participle		a reproof not said here	fear of a excess of frankness or a love of fun and jest	beneath the fiction of a occurrence	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	happen	gerund	a occurrence not said here		beasts		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among beast=Location
5	have	present	we	any ancient account of the Æsopian fables		wherever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient
6	find	present	the ainos and a admonition	name			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	is	to-infinitive				same property	tree rules
8	name		travestie				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	fear			a excess of frankness			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	love			fun and jest			nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
11	account			the Æsopian fables			nom account «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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