Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 112

“No,” returned the Fox, “for these flies which you see are full of blood, and sting me but little, and if you rid me of these which are already satiated, others more hungry will come in their place, and will drink up all the blood I have left.”

Who acts: you, flies, others, Fox · What happens: return, see, be, sting, rid, satiate · To what, where: Fox, flies, these, place, blood

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, flies, others, Fox), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 returned	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fox	det
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 flies	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 flies	det
12	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 full	nsubj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 see	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 flies	acl:relcl
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 full	cop
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 returned	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 blood	case
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 full	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sting	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sting	cc
22	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 full	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sting	obj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 little	cc
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sting	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rid	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 rid	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 rid	nsubj
30	rid	rid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 rid	obj
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 satiated	mark
33	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 satiated	nsubj:pass
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 satiated	nsubj:pass
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 satiated	aux:pass
36	already	already	ADV	_	37 satiated	advmod
37	satiated	satiate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 come	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 satiated	punct
39	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 come	nsubj
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 hungry	advmod
41	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 others	amod
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 rid	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 place	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 place	nmod:poss
46	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 come	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 drink	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 drink	cc
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 drink	aux
50	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 come	conj
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 drink	compound:prt
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 blood	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 blood	det
54	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 drink	obj
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 left	nsubj
56	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 left	aux
57	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 blood	acl:relcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past		the Fox			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
2	see in a quote	present	you	this flies			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	this flies			of blood; full property	tree rules
4	sting in a quote	infinitive		the Fox = fox			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
5	rid a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	the Fox = fox			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source
6	satiate in a quote	present · passive		these			vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	come in a quote	future	others		flies's place		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
8	drink up in a quote	future	others not said here	all blood			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
9	leave in a quote	present · perfect	the Fox = fox	all blood not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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