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title: Bonus Accursius, as early as 1475–1480, printed the collection of th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Bonus Accursius, as early as 1475–1480, printed the collection of these fables, made by Planudes, which, within five years afterwards, Caxton translated into English, and printed at his press in Westminster Abbey, 1485. Who acts: Bonus, fables, Caxton. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 76

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Bonus Accursius, as early as 1475–1480, printed the collection of these fables, made by Planudes, which, within five years afterwards, Caxton translated into English, and printed at his press in Westminster Abbey, 1485.

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**Who acts:** Bonus, fables, Caxton · **What happens:** print, make, translate, press · **To what, where:** collection, fables, English, press

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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 (Bonus, fables, Caxton), 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:pg21:1:76
# text = Bonus Accursius, as early as 1475–1480, printed the collection of these fables, made by Planudes, which, within five years afterwards, Caxton translated into English, and printed at his press in Westminster Abbey, 1485.
1	Bonus	Bonus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Accursius	Accursius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1475	1475	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	1480	1480	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	printed	print	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Planudes	Planude	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
29	Caxton	Caxton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
41	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	1485	1485	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | past | Bonus | the collection of this fables |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | this fables *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **translate** | past | this fables |  |  |  |  | into English *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into english=Result |
| 4 | **print** | participle |  |  |  | Caxton's press |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **press** |  | Caxton |  |  |  |  |  | nom press «state intransitive»: poss=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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