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title: It was, however, included by Demetrius Phalereus, tyrant of Athens,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was, however, included by Demetrius Phalereus, tyrant of Athens, and founder of the Alexandrian library c. 300 B.C., in his _Assemblies of Æsopic Fables_, which I have shown to be the source of Phædrus' Fables c. 30 A.D. Who acts: Demetrius. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 19

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It was, however, included by Demetrius Phalereus, tyrant of Athens, and founder of the Alexandrian library c. 300 B.C., in his \_Assemblies of Æsopic Fables\_, which I have shown to be the source of Phædrus' Fables c. 30 A.D.

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**Who acts:** Demetrius · **What happens:** include, show, be · **To what, where:** Fable, Assemblies, source

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demetrius), 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:pg7128:32:19
# text = It was, however, included by Demetrius Phalereus, tyrant of Athens, and founder of the Alexandrian library c. 300 B.C., in his _Assemblies of Æsopic Fables_, which I have shown to be the source of Phædrus' Fables c. 30 A.D.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Demetrius	Demetrius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Phalereus	Phalereus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Alexandrian	Alexandrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Assemblies	assembly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	'	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	47	compound	_	_
47	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
48	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	flat	_	_
49	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | past · passive | Demetrius | Fable |  |  |  | in B.C's Assemblies of Æsopic Fables *goal*; however *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in assembly=Goal |
| 2 | **show** | present · perfect · passive |  | B.C's Assemblies of Æsopic Fables |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the source |  |  |  | of Fables c. | tree rules |

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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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