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title: The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. Who acts: desire. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 120

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The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** involve · **To what, where:** loss

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire), 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:pg21:10:120
# text = The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	involves	involve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | present | the desire for imaginary benefits | the loss of present blessings |  |  |  | often *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Theme |

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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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