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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 102

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At whatever time he wrote his version of Æsop, by some strange accident it seems to have entirely disappeared, and to have been lost sight of.

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**Who acts:** A.D, it · **What happens:** write, seem, have, disappear, lose · **To what, where:** version, strange accident, sight

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (A.D, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:1:102
# text = At whatever time he wrote his version of Æsop, by some strange accident it seems to have entirely disappeared, and to have been lost sight of.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | A.D | A.D's version of Æsop |  |  | time | by some strange accident | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | it | some strange accident *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | A.D *not said here* | sight |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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