Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 80

The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favour and sanction given to them by the great fathers of the Reformation, who frequently used them as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics.

Who acts: knowledge, favour, Reformation · What happens: spread, increase, give, use, abuse · To what, where: Italy, popularity, sanction, Woodcutter, Romish ecclesiastics

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 (knowledge, favour, Reformation), 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 knowledge	det
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fables	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 fables	det
5	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knowledge	nmod
6	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	7 spread	advmod
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Italy	case
9	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 Germany	case
11	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 increased	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 increased	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 popularity	nmod:poss
15	popularity	popularity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 increased	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 increased	aux:pass
17	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spread	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 favour	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 favour	det
20	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 increased	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sanction	cc
22	sanction	sanction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 favour	conj
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sanction	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 fathers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fathers	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fathers	amod
29	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 given	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Reformation	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Reformation	det
32	Reformation	Reformation	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 fathers	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 used	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 used	nsubj
35	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	36 used	advmod
36	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Reformation	acl:relcl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 used	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 vehicles	case
39	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 used	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 satire	case
41	satire	satire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 vehicles	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 protest	cc
43	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 satire	conj
44	against	against	ADP	_	46 tricks	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tricks	det
46	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 protest	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 abuses	cc
48	abuses	abuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 tricks	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 ecclesiastics	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ecclesiastics	det
51	Romish	romish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 ecclesiastics	amod
52	ecclesiastics	ecclesiastic	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 abuses	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present	the knowledge of this fables			Italy	into Germany; rapidly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into germany=Destination
2	increase	past · passive	the favour and sanction	Woodcutter's popularity				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer subject=Patient
3	give	participle		sanction not said here	Woodcutter		by the great fathers of the Reformation	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	use	past	the Reformation	Woodcutter			as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics; frequently property	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as vehicle=Attribute
5	abuse			the Romish ecclesiastics				nom abuse «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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