Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 28
This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop, of wondrous apocryphal stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic.
Who acts: life · What happens: contain, be, lie, condemn, amount · To what, where: deformity, truth
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 (life), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 life | det |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contains | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 Planudes | case |
| 4 | Planudes | Planude | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 life | nmod |
| 5 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 small | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 small | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 small | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 small | advmod |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 contains | ccomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 amount | det |
| 12 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 small | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 truth | case |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amount | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 full | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 full | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 full | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 full | advmod |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 contains | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pictures | case |
| 21 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pictures | amod |
| 22 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 deformity | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 deformity | det |
| 25 | grotesque | grotesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deformity | amod |
| 26 | deformity | deformity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pictures | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Æsop | case |
| 28 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 deformity | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stories | punct |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 stories | case |
| 31 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stories | amod |
| 32 | apocryphal | apocryphal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stories | amod |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pictures | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 legends | punct |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 legends | case |
| 36 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 legends | amod |
| 37 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pictures | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 anachronisms | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 anachronisms | cc |
| 40 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 anachronisms | amod |
| 41 | anachronisms | anachronism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 condemned | punct |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 condemned | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 condemned | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 condemned | aux:pass |
| 46 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 condemned | advmod |
| 47 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 48 condemned | advmod |
| 48 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 full | conj |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 false | case |
| 50 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 condemned | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 puerile | punct |
| 52 | puerile | puerile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 false | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 unauthentic | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 unauthentic | cc |
| 55 | unauthentic | unauthentic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 contains | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | this life by Planudes | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | present | of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop and wondrous apocryphal stories and lying legends; full property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | condemn | present · passive | deformity | now | as false; universally property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as false=Attribute | |||
| 5 | amount | truth | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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