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title: This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of truth… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop, of wondrous apocryphal stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic. Who acts: lif
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 28

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This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop, of wondrous apocryphal stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic.

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** contain, be, lie, condemn, amount · **To what, where:** deformity, truth

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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:pg21:2:28
# text = This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop, of wondrous apocryphal stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Planudes	Planude	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	grotesque	grotesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	deformity	deformity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	apocryphal	apocryphal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	anachronisms	anachronism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
46	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
47	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	puerile	puerile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	unauthentic	unauthentic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | this life by Planudes |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop and wondrous apocryphal stories and lying legends; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **condemn** | present · passive |  | deformity |  |  | now | as false; universally *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as false=Attribute |
| 5 | **amount** |  |  | truth |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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