--- title: He is charged on the one hand with having had before him a copy of B… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: He is charged on the one hand with having had before him a copy of Babrias (to whom we shall have occasion to refer at greater length in the end of this Preface), and to have had the bad taste “to transpose,” or to turn his poetical version into prose: and he is asserted, on the other hand, never to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/66/) [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/) / 66 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 66 He is charged on the one hand with having had before him a copy of Babrias (to whom we shall have occasion to refer at greater length in the end of this Preface), and to have had the bad taste “to transpose,” or to turn his poetical version into prose: and he is asserted, on the other hand, never to have seen the Fables of Æsop at all, but to have himself invented and made the fables which he palmed off under the name of the famous Greek fabulist. **Who acts:** we, fables · **What happens:** charge, have, refer, transpose, turn, assert · **To what, where:** Planudes, one hand, copy, occasion, greater length, bad taste 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 (we, fables), 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:pg21:1:66 # text = He is charged on the one hand with having had before him a copy of Babrias (to whom we shall have occasion to refer at greater length in the end of this Preface), and to have had the bad taste “to transpose,” or to turn his poetical version into prose: and he is asserted, on the other hand, never to have seen the Fables of Æsop at all, but to have himself invented and made the fables which he palmed off under the name of the famous Greek fabulist. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ 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PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charge** | present · passive | | Planudes | | the one hand | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **have** | gerund · perfect | | a copy of Babrias | | | before Planudes | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=Patient | | 3 | **have** | shall | we | occasion | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | | 4 | **refer** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | occasion *not said here* | | greater length in the end of this Preface | | | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | to-infinitive · perfect | | the bad taste | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient | | 6 | **transpose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **turn** | to-infinitive | | Planudes's poetical version | | prose | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent version=Theme into prose=Trajectory | | 8 | **assert** | present · passive | | Planudes | | the other hand | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 9 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive · perfect | | the Fables of Æsop | | all | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fable=Stimulus | | 10 | **invent** | infinitive · perfect | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **make** | past | | the fables | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fable=Product | | 12 | **palm off** | past | the fables | | | the name of the famous Greek fabulist | | | tree rules | | 13 | **copy** | | | Babrias | | | | | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 14 | **name** | | | the famous Greek fabulist | | | | | nom name «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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/67/) - ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)