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title: On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace." Notoriety is often mist… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics
description: On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace." Notoriety is often mistaken for fame. Who acts: contrary. 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 81

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On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace." Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

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**Who acts:** contrary · **What happens:** be, mistake · **To what, where:** badge, contrary, Notoriety · **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 (contrary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:81
# text = On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace." Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
# 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	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	Notoriety	notoriety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | contrary | a badge |  | the contrary |  | of disgrace | tree rules |
| 2 | **mistake** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Notoriety |  |  |  | for fame; often *property* | 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:pg11339:81`.

**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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