Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 86
This was a noble effort to do honour to the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Æsopian fables ever yet published.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, honour, publish · To what, where: noble effort, perfect collection, Æsopian fables
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 effort | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 effort | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 effort | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 effort | amod |
| 5 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 honour | mark |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 honour | aux |
| 8 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 effort | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fabulist | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fabulist | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fabulist | amod |
| 12 | fabulist | fabulist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 honour | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 collection | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 collection | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 collection | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 collection | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 perfect | advmod |
| 18 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 collection | amod |
| 19 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 honour | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fables | case |
| 21 | Æsopian | æsopian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fables | amod |
| 22 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 collection | nmod |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 published | advmod |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 published | advmod |
| 25 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fables | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 effort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a noble effort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | honour | to-infinitive · do-support | to the great fabulist | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the perfect collection | of Æsopian fables | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | Æsopian fables not said here | ever; yet | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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