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title: The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favour and sanction given to them by the great fathers of the Reformation, who frequently used them as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesias
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 80

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The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favour and sanction given to them by the great fathers of the Reformation, who frequently used them as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics.

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**Who acts:** knowledge, favour, Reformation · **What happens:** spread, increase, give, use, abuse · **To what, where:** Italy, popularity, sanction, Woodcutter, Romish ecclesiastics

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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 (knowledge, favour, Reformation), 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:pg21:1:80
# text = The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favour and sanction given to them by the great fathers of the Reformation, who frequently used them as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sanction	sanction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Reformation	Reformation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	against	against	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	abuses	abuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Romish	romish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	ecclesiastics	ecclesiastic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **spread** | present | the knowledge of this fables |  |  | Italy |  | into Germany; rapidly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into germany=Destination |
| 2 | **increase** | past · passive | the favour and sanction | Woodcutter's popularity |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer subject=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | sanction *not said here* | Woodcutter |  |  | by the great fathers of the Reformation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 4 | **use** | past | the Reformation | Woodcutter |  |  |  | as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics; frequently *property* | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as vehicle=Attribute |
| 5 | **abuse** |  |  | the Romish ecclesiastics |  |  |  |  | nom abuse «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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