Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 27

His life was prefixed to all the early editions of these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by Archdeacon Croxall as the introduction to his edition of Æsop.

Who acts: Archdeacon · What happens: prefix, republish · To what, where: life

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archdeacon), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prefixed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prefixed	aux:pass
4	prefixed	prefix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 editions	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 editions	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 editions	det
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 editions	amod
9	editions	edition	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prefixed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fables	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 fables	det
12	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 editions	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 republished	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 republished	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 republished	aux:pass
16	republished	republish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 prefixed	conj
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 late	advmod
18	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 republished	xcomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 1727	case
20	1727	1727	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 republished	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 Archdeacon	case
22	Archdeacon	Archdeacon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 republished	obl:agent
23	Croxall	Croxall	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Archdeacon	flat
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 introduction	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 introduction	det
26	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 republished	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 edition	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 edition	nmod:poss
29	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 introduction	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Æsop	case
31	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 edition	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prefixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefix	past · passive		monk's life				to all early editions of this fables	tree rules
2	republish	past · passive	Archdeacon					as 1727; as the introduction to monk's edition of Æsop; late 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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