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title: The fables are so padded, diluted, and altered, as to give very litt… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The fables are so padded, diluted, and altered, as to give very little idea to the reader either of the terseness or the meaning of the original. 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 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 128

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The fables are so padded, diluted, and altered, as to give very little idea to the reader either of the terseness or the meaning of the original.

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**Who acts:** fables · **What happens:** be, dilute, alter, give, mean · **To what, where:** little idea, reader, original

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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:pg21:1:128
# text = The fables are so padded, diluted, and altered, as to give very little idea to the reader either of the terseness or the meaning of the original.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	padded	padded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	diluted	dilute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc:preconj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	terseness	terseness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the fables |  |  |  |  | padded *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dilute** | participle | the fables *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **alter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | little idea | the reader of the terseness or the meaning of the original |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent idea=Theme to reader=Recipient |
| 5 | **mean** |  |  | the original |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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