Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 84
The greatest advance, however, towards a re-introduction of the Fables of Æsop to a place in the literature of the world, was made in the early part of the seventeenth century.
What happens: make · To what, where: greatest advance, early part
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: 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 | 3 advance | det |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 advance | amod |
| 3 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 re-introduction | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 re-introduction | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 re-introduction | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 re-introduction | det |
| 9 | re-introduction | re-introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advance | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fables | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fables | det |
| 12 | Fables | Fable | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 re-introduction | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Æsop | case |
| 14 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fables | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 re-introduction | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 literature | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 literature | det |
| 20 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 literature | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 advance | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 part | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 part | det |
| 29 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 part | amod |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 century | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 century | det |
| 33 | seventeenth | seventeenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 century | compound |
| 34 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the greatest advance | the early part of the seventeenth century | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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