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title: 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers. Who acts: purpose, Scarron, V
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 38

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1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers.

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**Who acts:** purpose, Scarron, Vavassor · **What happens:** celebrate, publish, show, adopt, have, request · **To what, where:** burlesque style, sanction, ancient classic writers, celebrated M. Balzac · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (purpose, Scarron, Vavassor), 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:pg21:17:38
# text = 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers.
1	1658	1658	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Balzac	Balzac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	list	_	_
13	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	burlesque	burlesque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Scarron	Scarron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	D’Assouci	D'Assouci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	sanction	sanction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	classic	classic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  |  |  |  | after Vavassor's death | for the purpose | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **adopt** | participle · passive | Scarron and D’Assouci | the burlesque style of writing |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | Scarron and D’Assouci *not said here* | no sanction |  | the ancient classic writers | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Patient |
| 6 | **request** |  |  | the celebrated M. Balzac |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **die** |  | Vavassor |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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