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title: During the interval of three centuries which has elapsed since the p… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: During the interval of three centuries which has elapsed since the publication of this volume of Nevelet’s, no book, with the exception of the Holy Scriptures, has had a wider circulation than Æsop’s Fables. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 90

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During the interval of three centuries which has elapsed since the publication of this volume of Nevelet’s, no book, with the exception of the Holy Scriptures, has had a wider circulation than Æsop’s Fables.

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**What happens:** elapse, have, publish, except · **To what, where:** three centuries, wider circulation, volume, Holy Scriptures

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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: 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:pg21:1:90
# text = During the interval of three centuries which has elapsed since the publication of this volume of Nevelet’s, no book, with the exception of the Holy Scriptures, has had a wider circulation than Æsop’s Fables.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nevelet	Nevelet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	29	compound	_	_
29	Scriptures	Scripture	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	circulation	circulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elapse** | present · perfect · passive |  | three centuries |  |  | since the publication of Nevelet's volume and no book |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect |  | a wider circulation |  |  | during the interval of three centuries | than Æsop's Fables | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circulation=Patient |
| 3 | **publish** |  |  | Nevelet's volume and no book |  |  |  |  | nom publication «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **except** |  |  | the Holy Scriptures |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition 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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