A good example of a fable is "The Tortoise and the Hare" by Aesop.
Because the animals talk in the story, they are personified, and there is a moral in it.
In that sentence severely would mean to the extreme like without the word severely added in there the sentence would change
It is a 14th century novel written by Giovanni Boccaccio which consists of <span>a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare.
source is from </span>https://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Penguin-Classics-Giovanni-Boccaccio/dp/0140449302
Infer, Another way to word it may be to come to a conclusion
