Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 35
His ‘Mountain delivered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest admonition against the power of flattery.
Who acts: Mountain, Crow, fall · What happens: deliver, produce, drop, let, be, ridicule · To what, where: moral, cheese, fall, pompous pretenders
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 (Mountain, Crow, fall), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 delivered | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 delivered | punct |
| 3 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | nsubj |
| 4 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Mouse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 produces | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 produces | punct |
| 10 | produces | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delivered | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moral | det |
| 12 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 produces | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fable | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fable | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moral | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ridicule | case |
| 17 | ridicule | ridicule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fable | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pretenders | case |
| 19 | pompous | pompous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pretenders | amod |
| 20 | pretenders | pretender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ridicule | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 drops | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drops | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Crow | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drops | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drops | punct |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 drops | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drops | nsubj |
| 28 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delivered | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 cheese | nmod:poss |
| 30 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drops | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lets | punct |
| 32 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 drops | conj |
| 33 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lets | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 accident | punct |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 accident | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 accident | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 accident | cop |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 accident | case |
| 39 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lets | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 admonition | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 admonition | det |
| 42 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 admonition | amod |
| 43 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 accident | appos |
| 44 | against | against | ADP | _ | 46 power | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 power | det |
| 46 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 admonition | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 flattery | case |
| 48 | flattery | flattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 power | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past | Mountain | of a Mouse | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of mouse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | produce | present | Mountain not said here | the moral of Dodsley's fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Result | ||||
| 3 | drop | present | Dodsley's Crow | Fable's cheese | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | present | Dodsley's Crow not said here | fall | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | fall | as accident | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ridicule | pompous pretenders | nom ridicule «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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