Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 9

“The Phrygian has spoken better than all.”

What happens: speak · To what, where: Phrygian · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Phrygian	det
3	Phrygian	Phrygian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 spoken	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 better	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the Phrygian				well 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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