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title: He met at the court of Crœsus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He met at the court of Crœsus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb, “μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξ.” Who acts: Æsop. A 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 8

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He met at the court of Crœsus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb, “μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξ.”

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**Who acts:** Æsop · **What happens:** meet, be, have, take, hold, apply · **To what, where:** other sages, court, royal master, part, conversations, expression

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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 (Æsop), 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:pg21:2:8
# text = He met at the court of Crœsus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb, “μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξ.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Crœsus	Crœsus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Solon	Solon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Thales	Thales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	since	since	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	μᾶλλον	μᾶλλον	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
57	ὁ	ὁ	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	Φρύξ	Φρύξ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Æsop *= æsop* | other sages |  | the court of Crœsus with Solon and Thales |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | related *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | Æsop's royal master |  |  |  | by the part; pleased *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past | Æsop *= æsop* | the part *not said here* |  | the conversations |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in conversation=Location |
| 5 | **hold** | participle |  | the conversations *not said here* |  |  |  | with this philosophers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **apply** | past | Æsop *= æsop* | a expression | Thales |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | a expression |  | a proverb |  | since *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into proverb=Destination |

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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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