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title: Thus, the fables of the “Eagle and the Fox” and of the “Fox and Monk… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, the fables of the “Eagle and the Fox” and of the “Fox and Monkey” are supposed to have been written by Archilochus, to avenge the injuries done him by Lycambes. Who acts: Archilochus, injuries. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 130

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Thus, the fables of the “Eagle and the Fox” and of the “Fox and Monkey” are supposed to have been written by Archilochus, to avenge the injuries done him by Lycambes.

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**Who acts:** Archilochus, injuries · **What happens:** suppose, write, avenge, do · **To what, where:** fables, injuries, Archilochus

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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 (Archilochus, injuries), 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:pg21:16:130
# text = Thus, the fables of the “Eagle and the Fox” and of the “Fox and Monkey” are supposed to have been written by Archilochus, to avenge the injuries done him by Lycambes.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Archilochus	Archilochus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Lycambes	Lycambes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | the fables of the Eagle and the Fox and the Fox and Monkey |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Archilochus |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **avenge** | to-infinitive |  | the injuries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | participle | the injuries *not said here* | Archilochus |  |  |  | by Lycambes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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