Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 22
11 (return) [ Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the mediæval scholars.
Who acts: Fables · What happens: not be
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 (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 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 11 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 unknown | punct |
| 6 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 unknown | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 unknown | aux |
| 8 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 13 unknown | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unknown | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 unknown | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 unknown | advmod |
| 12 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 unknown | advmod |
| 13 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 return | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 scholars | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scholars | det |
| 16 | mediæval | mediæval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scholars | amod |
| 17 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 unknown | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 11 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | may · perfect | Fables | to the mediæval scholars; entirely, possibly, unknown 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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