Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 21
10 (return) [ Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are placed in the library in cases under glass, for the inspection of the curious.]
Who acts: publications · What happens: be, place · To what, where: British Museum, library
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (publications), 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 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 10 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Museum | punct |
| 6 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 13 Museum | cc:preconj |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 publications | det |
| 8 | publications | publication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Museum | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Museum | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Museum | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Museum | det |
| 12 | British | British | PROPN | _ | 13 Museum | compound |
| 13 | Museum | Museum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 return | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Museum | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 library | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 library | det |
| 20 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cases | case |
| 22 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 placed | obl |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 glass | case |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cases | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 inspection | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 inspection | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 inspection | det |
| 28 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 curious | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 curious | det |
| 31 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 inspection | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 33 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this publications | the British Museum | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | present · passive | the British Museum not said here | the library | in cases under glass; for the inspection of the curious | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in library=Destination |
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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