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title: See Fables of Babrias, translated by Rev. James Davies. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: See Fables of Babrias, translated by Rev. James Davies. Who acts: you. 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 45

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See Fables of Babrias, translated by Rev. James Davies.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, translate · **To what, where:** Fables

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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 (you), 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:pg21:17:45
# text = See Fables of Babrias, translated by Rev. James Davies.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Davies	Davies	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Fables of Babrias |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fable=Stimulus |
| 2 | **translate** | participle |  | Fables of Babrias *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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