--- title: Francesco de Furia, a learned Italian, contributed further testimony… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Francesco de Furia, a learned Italian, contributed further testimony to the correctness of the supposition that Babrias had made a veritable collection of fables by printing from a MS. contained in the Vatican library several fables never before published. Who acts: Babrias. A sentence of «Three hun --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/114/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/) / 114 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 114 Francesco de Furia, a learned Italian, contributed further testimony to the correctness of the supposition that Babrias had made a veritable collection of fables by printing from a MS. contained in the Vatican library several fables never before published. **Who acts:** Babrias · **What happens:** learn, contribute, make, print, contain, publish · **To what, where:** veritable collection, several fables, MS., Vatican library 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 (Babrias), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:1:114 # text = Francesco de Furia, a learned Italian, contributed further testimony to the correctness of the supposition that Babrias had made a veritable collection of fables by printing from a MS. contained in the Vatican library several fables never before published. 1 Francesco Francesco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Furia Furia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 6 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 7 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 contributed contribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 10 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 testimony testimony NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 correctness correctness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 supposition supposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 Babrias Babrias PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 veritable veritable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fables fable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 by by SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 printing print VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 MS. MS. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 contained contain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Vatican Vatican PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 fables fable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 before before ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 published publish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | participle | | | | | | italian *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **contribute** | participle | | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Babrias | a veritable collection of fables | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Product | | 4 | **print** | gerund | Babrias *not said here* | several fables | | a MS. | | | tree rules | | 5 | **contain** | participle | Babrias *not said here* | | | the Vatican library | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location | | 6 | **publish** | participle | | several fables *not said here* | | | | before *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/115/) - ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)