Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 19
It was, however, included by Demetrius Phalereus, tyrant of Athens, and founder of the Alexandrian library c. 300 B.C., in his _Assemblies of Æsopic Fables_, which I have shown to be the source of Phædrus' Fables c. 30 A.D.
Who acts: Demetrius · What happens: include, show, be · To what, where: Fable, Assemblies, source
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demetrius), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 included | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 included | aux:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 included | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 included | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Demetrius | case |
| 8 | Demetrius | Demetrius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 included | obl |
| 9 | Phalereus | Phalereus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Demetrius | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tyrant | punct |
| 11 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Demetrius | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Athens | case |
| 13 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tyrant | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 founder | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 founder | cc |
| 16 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 included | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 c. | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 c. | det |
| 19 | Alexandrian | Alexandrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 c. | compound |
| 20 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 c. | compound |
| 21 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 founder | nmod |
| 22 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 c. | flat |
| 23 | B.C | B.C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 300 | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 included | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Assemblies | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Assemblies | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 Assemblies | nmod:poss |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Assemblies | punct |
| 29 | Assemblies | assembly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 included | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Fables | case |
| 31 | Æsopic | Æsopic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Fables | compound |
| 32 | Fables | Fable | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 Assemblies | nmod |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Assemblies | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 shown | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 shown | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 shown | aux |
| 38 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 Assemblies | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 source | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 source | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 source | det |
| 42 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shown | xcomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 c. | case |
| 44 | Phædrus | Phædrus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Fables | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 44 Phædrus | case |
| 46 | Fables | Fable | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 c. | compound |
| 47 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 source | nmod |
| 48 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 c. | flat |
| 49 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 30 | flat |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 included | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | past · passive | Demetrius | Fable | in B.C's Assemblies of Æsopic Fables goal; however property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in assembly=Goal | |||
| 2 | show | present · perfect · passive | B.C's Assemblies of Æsopic Fables | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the source | of Fables c. | 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: «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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