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title: The Fables thus recovered were soon published. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fables thus recovered were soon published. Who acts: Fables. 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 121

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The Fables thus recovered were soon published.

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**Who acts:** Fables · **What happens:** recover, publish · **To what, where:** Fables

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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 (Fables), 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:pg21:1:121
# text = The Fables thus recovered were soon published.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past | the Fables *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **publish** | past · passive |  | the Fables |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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