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title: Many of them lack that unity of design, that close connection of the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of them lack that unity of design, that close connection of the moral with the narrative, that wise choice in the introduction of the animals, which constitute the charm and excellency of true Æsopian fable. Who acts: Many, animals. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literal
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 40

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Many of them lack that unity of design, that close connection of the moral with the narrative, that wise choice in the introduction of the animals, which constitute the charm and excellency of true Æsopian fable.

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**Who acts:** Many, animals · **What happens:** lack, constitute, introduce · **To what, where:** charm, animals

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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 (Many, animals), 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:pg21:1:40
# text = Many of them lack that unity of design, that close connection of the moral with the narrative, that wise choice in the introduction of the animals, which constitute the charm and excellency of true Æsopian fable.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	unity	unity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	constitute	constitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	excellency	excellency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Æsopian	æsopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lack** | present | Many of terms |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **constitute** | present | the animals | the charm and excellency of true Æsopian fable |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme charm=Pivot |
| 3 | **introduce** |  |  | the animals |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «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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