Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 7

By thus appearing before the springtime you have not only killed yourself, but you have wrought my destruction also.”

Who acts: springtime, you, my · What happens: appear, not kill, have, destroy · To what, where: springtime, you, destruction

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (springtime, you, 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 appearing	mark
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 appearing	advmod
3	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 springtime	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 springtime	det
6	springtime	springtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appearing	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 killed	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 killed	advmod
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 springtime	acl:relcl
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 killed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appearing	parataxis
17	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 have	xcomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 destruction	nmod:poss
19	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	also	also	ADV	_	16 have	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	gerund			the springtime	thus property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before springtime=Location
2	not kill	present · perfect · passive	the springtime not said here	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer yourself=Result
3	have	present	you	my destruction		wrought property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Patient
4	destroy		my				nom destruction «act 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: «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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