Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 125
In three books, translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a selection of notes, and an Essay on Fable.
Who acts: Robert · What happens: translate, accompany, select · To what, where: three books, notes
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robert), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 books | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 books | nummod |
| 3 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
| 5 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Robert | case |
| 7 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | obl:agent |
| 8 | Dodsley | Dodsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Robert | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 accompanied | punct |
| 10 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 translated | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 selection | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 selection | det |
| 13 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompanied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 notes | case |
| 15 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 selection | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Essay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Essay | cc |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Essay | det |
| 19 | Essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Fable | case |
| 21 | Fable | Fable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Essay | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | participle · passive | Robert | three books | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accompany | participle | Robert not said here | with a selection of notes | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | select | notes | nom selection «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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