Assertion: fable | /r/CapableOf | record single action
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text: Fables must record a single action, short chain of actions, or speech that took place once in the past; they are thus unlike proverbs, which usually show a consuetudinal present.
text: With Ziolkowski summarizing Perry I find that "fables must record a single action, short chain of actions, or speech that took place once in the past" (9).