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title: These were utilised by Babrius (from whom the Greek Æsop is derived)… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These were utilised by Babrius (from whom the Greek Æsop is derived) and Avian, and so came into the European Æsop. Who acts: Babrius. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 141

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These were utilised by Babrius (from whom the Greek Æsop is derived) and Avian, and so came into the European Æsop.

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**Who acts:** Babrius · **What happens:** utilise, derive, come · **To what, where:** These, Greek Æsop, European Æsop

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babrius), 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:pg7128:29:141
# text = These were utilised by Babrius (from whom the Greek Æsop is derived) and Avian, and so came into the European Æsop.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	utilised	utilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Babrius	Babrius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Avian	avian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utilise** | past · passive | Babrius | These |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | the Greek Æsop |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from whom=Material |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the European Æsop |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into æsop=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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