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title: This was a noble effort to do honour to the great fabulist, and was… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a noble effort to do honour to the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Æsopian fables ever yet published. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 86

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This was a noble effort to do honour to the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Æsopian fables ever yet published.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, honour, publish · **To what, where:** noble effort, perfect collection, Æsopian fables

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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 (This), 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:pg21:1:86
# text = This was a noble effort to do honour to the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Æsopian fables ever yet published.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Æsopian	æsopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a noble effort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **honour** | to-infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | to the great fabulist | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the perfect collection |  |  |  | of Æsopian fables | tree rules |
| 4 | **publish** | participle |  | Æsopian fables *not said here* |  |  | ever; yet |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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