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title: There are two celebrated works which might by some be classed amongs… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: There are two celebrated works which might by some be classed amongst works of this description. Who acts: two, description. 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 23

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There are two celebrated works which might by some be classed amongst works of this description.

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**Who acts:** two, description · **What happens:** be, celebrate, work, class · **To what, where:** some

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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 (two, description), 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:pg21:17:23
# text = There are two celebrated works which might by some be classed amongst works of this description.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	nsubj	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	classed	class	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present | two |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **class** | infinitive · passive |  | some |  |  |  | amongst works of this description | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | this description |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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