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title: 11 (return) [ Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 11 (return) [ Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the mediæval scholars. Who acts: Fables. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 22

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11 (return) \[ Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the mediæval scholars.

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**Who acts:** Fables · **What happens:** not be

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. 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:pg21:17:22
# text = 11 (return) [ Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the mediæval scholars.
1	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
6	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
8	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mediæval	mediæval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | may · perfect | Fables |  |  |  |  | to the mediæval scholars; entirely, possibly, unknown *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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