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title: The continual observance of this twofold aim creates the charm, and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The continual observance of this twofold aim creates the charm, and accounts for the universal favour, of the fables of Æsop. Who acts: continual observance. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 22

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The continual observance of this twofold aim creates the charm, and accounts for the universal favour, of the fables of Æsop.

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**Who acts:** continual observance · **What happens:** create, observe · **To what, where:** charm, twofold aim

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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 (continual observance), 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:pg21:1:22
# text = The continual observance of this twofold aim creates the charm, and accounts for the universal favour, of the fables of Æsop.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	observance	observance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	twofold	twofold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	creates	create	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **create** | present | the continual observance of this twofold aim | the charm |  |  |  | of the fables of Æsop; accounts for the universal favour *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Result |
| 2 | **observe** |  |  | this twofold aim |  |  |  |  | nom observance «act 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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