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title: His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or foundation of the earlier printed versions of Æsop, but as the direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the learned. Who acts: collection, direct channel. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» b
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 69

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His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or foundation of the earlier printed versions of Æsop, but as the direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the learned.

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**Who acts:** collection, direct channel · **What happens:** be, print, attract, learn · **To what, where:** versions, attention

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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 (collection, direct channel), 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:pg21:1:69
# text = His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or foundation of the earlier printed versions of Æsop, but as the direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the learned.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	printed	print	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | **is** | present | abundance's collection |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | abundance's collection *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **print** | past | abundance's collection *not said here* | versions of Æsop |  |  |  | early *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |
| 4 | **attract** | gerund | the direct channel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this fables *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to fable=Result |
| 5 | **learn** | participle |  | the attention *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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