The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 6

You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless!

Who acts: You, I, my · What happens: lie, say, be, shade · To what, where: cooling shade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lie	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 shade	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shade	nmod:poss
6	cooling	cooling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shade	amod
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lie	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	parataxis
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 useless	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 useless	cop
15	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	ccomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	You	my cooling shade; here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	you		yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I			useless property	tree rules
4	shade		my				nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent

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.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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