Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 133

These fables, however, though thus originating in special events, and designed at first to meet special circumstances, are so admirably constructed as to be fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal application.]

Who acts: fables · What happens: originate, design, meet, construct, be · To what, where: special events, special circumstances

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 (fables), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 fables	det
2	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 originating	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fables	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 originating	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 originating	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 originating	mark
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 originating	advmod
8	originating	originate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 constructed	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 events	case
10	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 events	amod
11	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 originating	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 designed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 designed	cc
14	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 originating	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 designed	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 meet	mark
18	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 designed	advcl
19	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 circumstances	amod
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 meet	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 originating	punct
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 constructed	aux:pass
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 constructed	advmod
24	admirably	admirably	ADV	_	25 constructed	advmod
25	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 fraught	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	29 fraught	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fraught	cop
29	fraught	fraught	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 constructed	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 lessons	case
31	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fraught	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 utility	case
33	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 utility	amod
34	utility	utility	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lessons	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 application	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 application	cc
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 application	case
38	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 application	amod
39	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 constructed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 constructed	punct
41	]	]	PUNCT	_	25 constructed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	originate	gerund	this fables		special events	however, thus property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	design	participle					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	meet	to-infinitive		special circumstances			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Co-Agent
4	construct	present · passive				of universal application; admirably property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»
5	is	to-infinitive				with lessons of general utility; fraught property	tree rules

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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