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title: In the year 1844, however, new and unexpected light was thrown upon… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: In the year 1844, however, new and unexpected light was thrown upon this subject. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 115

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In the year 1844, however, new and unexpected light was thrown upon this subject.

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**What happens:** throw · **To what, where:** unexpected light, subject

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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: 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:pg21:1:115
# text = In the year 1844, however, new and unexpected light was thrown upon this subject.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	1844	1844	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive |  | unexpected light |  | this subject |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon subject=Destination |

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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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