Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 7
The Tale, the Parable, and the Fable are all common and popular modes of conveying instruction.
Who acts: Tale, popular modes · What happens: be, convey · To what, where: instruction
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 (Tale, popular modes), 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 | 2 Tale | det |
| 2 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 common | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Parable | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Parable | det |
| 5 | Parable | Parable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tale | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fable | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Fable | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fable | det |
| 9 | Fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tale | appos |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 common | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 common | advmod |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 modes | cc |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 modes | amod |
| 15 | modes | mode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 common | conj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 conveying | mark |
| 17 | conveying | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 modes | acl |
| 18 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conveying | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Tale and the Parable | all, common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | convey | gerund | popular modes not said here | instruction | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic |
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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