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title: The two chief existing English versions of Æsop are those by Archdea… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The two chief existing English versions of Æsop are those by Archdeacon Croxall, and by the late Rev. Thomas James, canon of Peterborough. Who acts: two chief. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 126

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The two chief existing English versions of Æsop are those by Archdeacon Croxall, and by the late Rev. Thomas James, canon of Peterborough.

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**Who acts:** two chief · **What happens:** exist, be · **To what, where:** English versions, those

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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 (two chief), 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:pg21:1:126
# text = The two chief existing English versions of Æsop are those by Archdeacon Croxall, and by the late Rev. Thomas James, canon of Peterborough.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Archdeacon	Archdeacon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Croxall	Croxall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	canon	Canon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Peterborough	Peterborough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | gerund | the two chief *not said here* | English versions of Æsop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the two chief | those |  |  |  | by Archdeacon | 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:** «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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