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title: “’Tis the simple manner,” says Dodsley,[2] “in which the morals of Æ… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “’Tis the simple manner,” says Dodsley,[2] “in which the morals of Æsop are interwoven with his fables that distinguishes him, and gives him the preference over all other mythologists. Who acts: Dodsley, fables. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Gre
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 34

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“’Tis the simple manner,” says Dodsley,\[2\] “in which the morals of Æsop are interwoven with his fables that distinguishes him, and gives him the preference over all other mythologists.

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**Who acts:** Dodsley, fables · **What happens:** say, interweave, distinguish, give · **To what, where:** morals, Dodsley, preference, other mythologists · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dodsley, 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:pg21:1:34
# text = “’Tis the simple manner,” says Dodsley,[2] “in which the morals of Æsop are interwoven with his fables that distinguishes him, and gives him the preference over all other mythologists.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Dodsley	Dodsley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	19	det	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	morals	moral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	interwoven	interweave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	distinguishes	distinguish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	mythologists	mythologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dodsley |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **interweave** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | which morals of Æsop |  |  |  | with Dodsley's fables | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with fable=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **distinguish** *in a quote* | present | Dodsley's fables | Dodsley |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute he=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present | Dodsley *not said here* | the preference | Dodsley | all other mythologists |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient preference=Theme |

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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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