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title: These fables, however, though thus originating in special events, an… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: These fables, however, though thus originating in special events, and designed at first to meet special circumstances, are so admirably constructed as to be fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal application.] Who acts: fables. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 133

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These fables, however, though thus originating in special events, and designed at first to meet special circumstances, are so admirably constructed as to be fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal application.\]

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**Who acts:** fables · **What happens:** originate, design, meet, construct, be · **To what, where:** special events, special circumstances

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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 (fables), 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:pg21:16:133
# text = These fables, however, though thus originating in special events, and designed at first to meet special circumstances, are so admirably constructed as to be fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal application.]
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	originating	originate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	fraught	fraught	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	utility	utility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	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 | **originate** | gerund | this fables |  |  | special events |  | however, thus *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **design** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | special circumstances |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **construct** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of universal application; admirably *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with lessons of general utility; fraught *property* | tree rules |

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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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