Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 94

It is remarkable, also, as containing in its preface the germ of an idea, which has been since proved to have been correct by a strange chain of circumstances.

Who acts: history, strange chain · What happens: be, contain, prove, correct, preface · To what, where: preface, idea

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 (history, strange chain), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remarkable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remarkable	cop
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 also	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	3 remarkable	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 containing	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 containing	mark
8	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 remarkable	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 preface	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 preface	nmod:poss
11	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 containing	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 germ	det
13	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 preface	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 idea	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 idea	det
16	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 germ	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 proved	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 proved	nsubj:pass
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 proved	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 proved	aux:pass
21	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 proved	mark
22	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 idea	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	26 correct	mark
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 correct	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 correct	aux:pass
26	correct	correct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 proved	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 chain	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 chain	det
29	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 chain	amod
30	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 correct	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 circumstances	case
32	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 chain	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	history			remarkable property	tree rules
2	contain	gerund	history not said here		history's preface		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in preface=Location
3	prove	present · perfect · passive		a idea			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	correct speech: disagree	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	a strange chain of circumstances				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	preface		history				nom preface «communication transitive»: 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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