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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

nmod:posspunctnsubjcasedetoblpunctpunctconjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodcasenmodcaseamodnmodpunctccnmod:possnsubjpunctmarknsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctconjobjpunctcasensubjcopcaseoblpunctdetamodapposcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctrootHisPRON‘PUNCTMountainPROPNdeliveredVERBofADPaDETMouseNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTproducesVERBtheDETmoralNOUNofADPhisPRONfableNOUNinADPridiculeNOUNofADPpompousADJpretendersNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONCrowNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJshePRONdropsVERBherPRONcheeseNOUN,PUNCTletsVERBfallNOUN,PUNCTasADPitPRONwereAUXbyADPaccidentNOUN,PUNCTtheDETstrongestADJadmonitionNOUNagainstADPtheDETpowerNOUNofADPflatteryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 deliverednmod:poss
2‘'PUNCT_4 deliveredpunct
3MountainMountainPROPNNumber=Sing4 deliverednsubj
4delivereddeliverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5ofofADP_7 Mousecase
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 Mousedet
7MousemouseNOUNNumber=Sing4 deliveredobl
8,,PUNCT_10 producespunct
9’'PUNCT_10 producespunct
10producesproduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 deliveredconj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 moraldet
12moralmoralNOUNNumber=Sing10 producesobj
13ofofADP_15 fablecase
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 fablenmod:poss
15fablefableNOUNNumber=Sing12 moralnmod
16ininADP_17 ridiculecase
17ridiculeridiculeNOUNNumber=Sing15 fablenmod
18ofofADP_20 pretenderscase
19pompouspompousADJDegree=Pos20 pretendersamod
20pretenderspretenderNOUNNumber=Plur17 ridiculenmod
21;;PUNCT_28 dropspunct
22andandCCONJ_28 dropscc
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 Crownmod:poss
24CrowcrowNOUNNumber=Sing28 dropsnsubj
25,,PUNCT_28 dropspunct
26whenwhenSCONJ_28 dropsmark
27sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 dropsnsubj
28dropsdropVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 deliveredconj
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 cheesenmod:poss
30cheesecheeseNOUNNumber=Sing28 dropsobj
31,,PUNCT_32 letspunct
32letsletVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 dropsconj
33fallfallNOUNNumber=Sing32 letsobj
34,,PUNCT_39 accidentpunct
35asasADP_39 accidentcase
36ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 accidentnsubj
37werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 accidentcop
38bybyADP_39 accidentcase
39accidentaccidentNOUNNumber=Sing32 letsobl
40,,PUNCT_43 admonitionpunct
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 admonitiondet
42strongeststrongADJDegree=Sup43 admonitionamod
43admonitionadmonitionNOUNNumber=Sing39 accidentappos
44againstagainstADP_46 powercase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 powerdet
46powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing43 admonitionnmod
47ofofADP_48 flatterycase
48flatteryflatteryNOUNNumber=Sing46 powernmod
49..PUNCT_4 deliveredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1deliverpastMountainof a Mousevn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of mouse=Initial_Location
2producepresentMountain not said herethe moral of Dodsley's fable in ridicule of pompous pretendersvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Result
3droppresentDodsley's CrowFable's cheesevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme
4letpresentDodsley's Crow not said herefallvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme
5ispastfallas accidenttree rules
6ridiculepompous pretendersnom 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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