Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 141
These were utilised by Babrius (from whom the Greek Æsop is derived) and Avian, and so came into the European Æsop.
Who acts: Babrius · What happens: utilise, derive, come · To what, where: These, Greek Æsop, European Æsop
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babrius), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 utilised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 utilised | aux:pass |
| 3 | utilised | utilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Babrius | case |
| 5 | Babrius | Babrius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 utilised | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 derived | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 derived | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Æsop | det |
| 10 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Æsop | compound |
| 11 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 derived | aux:pass |
| 13 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 utilised | parataxis |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 derived | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Avian | cc |
| 16 | Avian | avian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 derived | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 utilised | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 Æsop | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Æsop | det |
| 23 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Æsop | compound |
| 24 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 utilised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utilise | past · passive | Babrius | These | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | derive | present · passive | the Greek Æsop | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from whom=Material | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the European Æsop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into æsop=Initial_Location |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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