Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 40

Many of them lack that unity of design, that close connection of the moral with the narrative, that wise choice in the introduction of the animals, which constitute the charm and excellency of true Æsopian fable.

Who acts: Many, animals · What happens: lack, constitute, introduce · To what, where: charm, 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 (Many, animals), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lack	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Many	nmod
4	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 lack	advmod
6	unity	unity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 that	fixed
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 design	case
8	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unity	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 connection	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 connection	det
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 connection	amod
12	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unity	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 moral	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moral	det
15	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 connection	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 narrative	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 narrative	det
18	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 moral	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 choice	punct
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 choice	det
21	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 choice	amod
22	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unity	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 introduction	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 introduction	det
25	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 choice	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 animals	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 animals	det
28	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 introduction	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 constitute	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 constitute	nsubj
31	constitute	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 animals	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 charm	det
33	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 constitute	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 excellency	cc
35	excellency	excellency	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 charm	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 fable	case
37	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fable	amod
38	Æsopian	æsopian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fable	amod
39	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 excellency	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lack	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lack	present	Many of terms		tree rules
2	constitute	present	the animals	the charm and excellency of true Æsopian fable	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme charm=Pivot
3	introduce			the animals	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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