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title: They have inserted a hundred new fables, and they have the satisfact… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 134

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They have inserted a hundred new fables, and they have the satisfaction of knowing that this edition, on which they have spared no pains nor cost, will afford a larger choice, and greater variety, to the numerous and increasing circle of the admirers of Æsopian Fables.

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**Who acts:** Publishers, satisfaction · **What happens:** insert, have, know, spare, afford, increase · **To what, where:** hundred new fables, satisfaction, edition, pains, larger choice

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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 (Publishers, satisfaction), 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:pg21:1:134
# text = They have inserted a hundred new fables, and they have the satisfaction of knowing that this edition, on which they have spared no pains nor cost, will afford a larger choice, and greater variety, to the numerous and increasing circle of the admirers of Æsopian Fables.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
28	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	amod	_	_
45	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	admirers	admirer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	Æsopian	æsopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **insert** | present · perfect | Publishers *= publisher* | hundred new fables |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Publishers *= publisher* | the satisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | the satisfaction *not said here* | this edition |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer edition=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spare** | present · perfect | Publishers *= publisher* | no pains nor cost |  | this edition |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset |
| 5 | **afford** | future | Publishers *= publisher* *not said here* | a larger choice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **increase** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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