--- title: The ‘ainos,’ as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a repr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The ‘ainos,’ as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof, veiled, either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of the Æsopian fables, we f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/) / 25 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 25 The ‘ainos,’ as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof, veiled, either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of the Æsopian fables, we find it to be the same.” **Who acts:** name, ainos, occurrence, we, travestie · **What happens:** denote, be, veil, happen, have, find · **To what, where:** admonition, reproof, fear, beasts, ancient account, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (name, ainos, occurrence, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:1:25 # text = The ‘ainos,’ as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof, veiled, either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of the Æsopian fables, we find it to be the same.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ainos aino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 denotes denote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 admonition admonition NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 rather rather ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 reproof reproof NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 veiled veil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 either either CCONJ CC _ 24 cc:preconj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 excess excess NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 frankness frankness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 jest jest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fiction fiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 occurrence occurrence NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 acl _ _ 47 among among ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 65 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 51 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 52 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 advcl _ _ 54 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 58 det _ _ 55 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 authentic authentic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 conj _ _ 58 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 Æsopian æsopian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 fables fable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 64 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 65 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 66 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 obj _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 70 mark _ _ 68 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 70 cop _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ” " PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **denote** | present | travestie's name | | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is a** | present | the ainos and a admonition *not said here* | a admonition | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **veil** | participle | | a reproof *not said here* | | fear of a excess of frankness or a love of fun and jest | | beneath the fiction of a occurrence | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **happen** | gerund | a occurrence *not said here* | | | beasts | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among beast=Location | | 5 | **have** | present | we | any ancient account of the Æsopian fables | | | | wherever *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient | | 6 | **find** | present | the ainos and a admonition | name | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **name** | | travestie | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **fear** | | | a excess of frankness | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **love** | | | fun and jest | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 11 | **account** | | | the Æsopian fables | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/26/) - ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)