Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 30
The introduction of the animals or fictitious characters should be marked with an unexceptionable care and attention to their natural attributes, and to the qualities attributed to them by universal popular consent.
Who acts: qualities · What happens: mark, attribute, introduce · To what, where: introduction, care, animals
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 (qualities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 introduction | det |
| 2 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 introduction | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 characters | cc |
| 7 | fictitious | fictitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 characters | amod |
| 8 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | conj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 marked | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 marked | aux:pass |
| 11 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 care | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 care | det |
| 14 | unexceptionable | unexceptionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 care | amod |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 attention | cc |
| 17 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 care | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 attributes | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 attributes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 attributes | amod |
| 21 | attributes | attribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 care | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 attributed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 attributed | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 qualities | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 qualities | det |
| 26 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 attributed | nsubj |
| 27 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 marked | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 attributed | obl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 consent | case |
| 31 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 consent | amod |
| 32 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 consent | amod |
| 33 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 attributed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | should · passive | the introduction of the animals or fictitious characters | with a unexceptionable care to care's natural attributes and attention | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attribute | past | the qualities | care | by universal popular consent | tree rules | |||
| 3 | introduce | the animals or fictitious characters | nom introduction «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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