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title: The Tale consists simply in the narration of a story either founded… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tale consists simply in the narration of a story either founded on facts, or created solely by the imagination, and not necessarily associated with the teaching of any moral lesson. Who acts: Tale. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with i
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 9

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The Tale consists simply in the narration of a story either founded on facts, or created solely by the imagination, and not necessarily associated with the teaching of any moral lesson.

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**Who acts:** Tale · **What happens:** consist, found, create, associate, narrate, teach · **To what, where:** narration, story, moral lesson

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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 (Tale), 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:pg21:1:9
# text = The Tale consists simply in the narration of a story either founded on facts, or created solely by the imagination, and not necessarily associated with the teaching of any moral lesson.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
18	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **consist** | present | the Tale |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** | past |  |  |  | the narration of a story |  | on facts; either *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fact=Source |
| 3 | **create** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the imagination; solely *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **associate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the teaching of any moral lesson; necessarily *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with teaching=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **narrate** |  |  | a story |  |  |  |  | nom narration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **teach** |  |  | any moral lesson |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «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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