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title: But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct. — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics
description: But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct. Who acts: fable. A sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 26

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But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct.

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**Who acts:** fable · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** things

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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 (fable), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:26
# text = But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct.
# 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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the fable and the fairy tale | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:pg11339:26`.

**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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