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title: _--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into La… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into Latin mainly those portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phædrus. Who acts: Avian, portions. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., sentence 15

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\_--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into Latin mainly those portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phædrus.

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**Who acts:** Avian, portions · **What happens:** write, put, be · **To what, where:** portions, Latin

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Avian, portions), 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:pg7128:51:15
# text = _--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into Latin mainly those portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phædrus.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Avian	avian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Babrius	Babrius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	unparalleled	unparalleled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Avian |  |  |  | towards the end of the third century |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | participle | Avian *not said here* | that portions of Babrius |  | Latin |  | mainly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent portion=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | present | that portions of Babrius |  |  |  |  | by Phædrus; unparalleled *property* | 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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