Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 76
Bonus Accursius, as early as 1475–1480, printed the collection of these fables, made by Planudes, which, within five years afterwards, Caxton translated into English, and printed at his press in Westminster Abbey, 1485.
Who acts: Bonus, fables, Caxton · What happens: print, make, translate, press · To what, where: collection, fables, English, press
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 (Bonus, fables, Caxton), 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 | Bonus | Bonus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 printed | nsubj |
| 2 | Accursius | Accursius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bonus | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1475 | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 1475 | advmod |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 1475 | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 1475 | case |
| 7 | 1475 | 1475 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Bonus | list |
| 8 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 9 1480 | case |
| 9 | 1480 | 1480 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1475 | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bonus | punct |
| 11 | printed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root | |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 collection | det |
| 13 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 printed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fables | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 fables | det |
| 16 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 collection | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fables | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Planudes | case |
| 20 | Planudes | Planude | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl:agent |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 translated | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 translated | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 which | punct |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 which | nmod |
| 27 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 26 years | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 which | punct |
| 29 | Caxton | Caxton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 translated | nsubj |
| 30 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fables | acl:relcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 English | case |
| 32 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 translated | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 printed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 printed | cc |
| 35 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 printed | parataxis | |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 press | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 press | nmod:poss |
| 38 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 printed | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Westminster | case |
| 40 | Westminster | Westminster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 press | appos |
| 41 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Westminster | flat |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 1485 | punct |
| 43 | 1485 | 1485 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Westminster | list |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 printed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | past | Bonus | the collection of this fables | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | this fables not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | translate | past | this fables | into English result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into english=Result | ||||
| 4 | participle | Caxton's press | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | press | Caxton | nom press «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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