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title: In three books, translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a sel… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: In three books, translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a selection of notes, and an Essay on Fable. Who acts: Robert. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 125

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In three books, translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a selection of notes, and an Essay on Fable.

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**Who acts:** Robert · **What happens:** translate, accompany, select · **To what, where:** three books, notes

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robert), 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:pg21:16:125
# text = In three books, translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a selection of notes, and an Essay on Fable.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	Dodsley	Dodsley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Essay	essay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Fable	Fable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | participle · passive | Robert | three books |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle | Robert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a selection of notes | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **select** |  |  | notes |  |  |  |  | nom selection «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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