Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 75
These fables, again, were among the books brought into an extended circulation by the agency of the printing press.
Who acts: fables · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: books, extended circulation
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 (fables), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 fables | det |
| 2 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 books | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fables | punct |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 fables | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fables | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 books | cop |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 books | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 books | det |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 books | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 circulation | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 circulation | det |
| 13 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 circulation | amod |
| 14 | circulation | circulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 agency | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 agency | det |
| 17 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 press | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 press | det |
| 20 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 press | compound |
| 21 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 agency | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 books | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this fables | among the books | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | the books not said here | a extended circulation | by the agency of the printing press | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into circulation=Destination |
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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