Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 38
1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers.
Who acts: purpose, Scarron, Vavassor · What happens: celebrate, publish, show, adopt, have, request · To what, where: burlesque style, sanction, ancient classic writers, celebrated M. Balzac · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (purpose, Scarron, Vavassor), 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 | 1658 | 1658 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 request | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 request | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 request | det |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 1658 | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Balzac | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Balzac | det |
| 8 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Balzac | amod |
| 9 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Balzac | compound |
| 10 | Balzac | Balzac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 request | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 though | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 Balzac | list |
| 13 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 though | acl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 published | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 published | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 purpose | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 purpose | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 purpose | det |
| 21 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 published | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 showing | mark |
| 23 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 purpose | acl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 adopted | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 style | det |
| 26 | burlesque | burlesque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 style | compound |
| 27 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 writing | case |
| 29 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 style | nmod |
| 30 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 showing | ccomp |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Scarron | case |
| 32 | Scarron | Scarron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 adopted | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 D’Assouci | cc |
| 34 | D’Assouci | D'Assouci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Scarron | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 had | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 had | cc |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 time | det |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obl |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 popular | advmod |
| 41 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 France | case |
| 43 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 popular | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 time | punct |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 adopted | conj |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 sanction | det |
| 47 | sanction | sanction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 writers | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 writers | det |
| 50 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 writers | amod |
| 51 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 writers | amod |
| 52 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 had | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 1658 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | publish | participle | after Vavassor's death | for the purpose | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | the purpose not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | adopt | participle · passive | Scarron and D’Assouci | the burlesque style of writing | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Scarron and D’Assouci not said here | no sanction | the ancient classic writers | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Patient | ||
| 6 | request | the celebrated M. Balzac | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | die | Vavassor | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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