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title: The truth is, of course, that Æsop's Fables are not Æsop's fables, a… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics
description: The truth is, of course, that Æsop's Fables are not Æsop's fables, any more than Grimm's Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales. Who acts: Fables, Fairy Tales, Grimm. A sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and t
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# Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 25

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The truth is, of course, that Æsop's Fables are not Æsop's fables, any more than Grimm's Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales.

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**Who acts:** Fables, Fairy Tales, Grimm · **What happens:** not be, be, tell · **To what, where:** fables, fairy tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fables, Fairy Tales, Grimm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:25
# text = The truth is, of course, that Æsop's Fables are not Æsop's fables, any more than Grimm's Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales.
# source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	any	any	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
21	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
27	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Æsop's Fables | Æsop's fables |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Grimm's fairy tales |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** |  | Grimm |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence `gutenberg:pg11339:25`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/).

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