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title: Thus the superiority of the counsellor, which often renders counsel… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the superiority of the counsellor, which often renders counsel unpalatable, is kept out of view, and the lesson comes with the greater acceptance when the reader is led, unconsciously to himself, to have his sympathies enlisted in behalf of what is pure, honourable, and praiseworthy, and to hav
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 14

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Thus the superiority of the counsellor, which often renders counsel unpalatable, is kept out of view, and the lesson comes with the greater acceptance when the reader is led, unconsciously to himself, to have his sympathies enlisted in behalf of what is pure, honourable, and praiseworthy, and to have his indignation excited against what is low, ignoble, and unworthy.

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**Who acts:** renders, lesson, sympathies · **What happens:** counsel, keep out, come, lead, have, enlist · **To what, where:** counsellor, superiority, view, reader, behalf, indignation

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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 (renders, lesson, sympathies), 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:pg21:1:14
# text = Thus the superiority of the counsellor, which often renders counsel unpalatable, is kept out of view, and the lesson comes with the greater acceptance when the reader is led, unconsciously to himself, to have his sympathies enlisted in behalf of what is pure, honourable, and praiseworthy, and to have his indignation excited against what is low, ignoble, and unworthy.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	superiority	superiority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	renders	render	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	counsel	counsel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	unpalatable	unpalatable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	sympathies	sympathy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	enlisted	enlist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nmod	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	honourable	honourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	praiseworthy	praiseworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	_
61	against	against	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	60	obl	_	_
63	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	ignoble	ignoble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | renders | the counsellor |  |  |  | often, unpalatable *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 2 | **keep out** | present · passive |  | the superiority of the counsellor |  | view |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme view=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | present | the lesson |  | reader |  |  | with the greater acceptance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lead** | present · passive |  | the reader |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | the lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **enlist** | past | reader's sympathies |  |  | behalf |  |  | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent in behalf=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | reader's indignation |  |  |  | excited *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indignation=Patient |
| 10 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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