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title: fabulist — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fabulist» in the school dictionary: A fabulist is a writer who makes up fables, short stories that teach a lesson, often with animals as characters. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fabulist

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**Who acts:** fabulist, writer, short stories, Aesop, animals · **What happens:** be, make up, teach, tell, talk · **To what, where:** writer, fables, lesson, famous fabulist, short tale, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«fabulist» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [fabulist in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fabulist.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A fabulist is a writer who makes up fables, short stories that teach a lesson, often with animals as characters.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fabulist:m1:1
# text = A fabulist is a writer who makes up fables, short stories that teach a lesson, often with animals as characters.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a fabulist | a writer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | present | a writer | fables and short stories and animals as characters |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fable=Pivot |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | short stories | a lesson |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Aesop was a famous fabulist.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fabulist:x1:1
# text = Aesop was a famous fabulist.
1	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Aesop | a famous fabulist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A fabulist tells a short tale with a lesson at the end.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fabulist:x2:1
# text = A fabulist tells a short tale with a lesson at the end.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a fabulist | a short tale |  |  | at the end | with a lesson | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The fabulist's animals talk and teach us something.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fabulist:x3:1
# text = The fabulist's animals talk and teach us something.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | the fabulist's animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the fabulist's animals *not said here* | something | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Topic |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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