Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 138

A MAN, very much annoyed with a Flea, caught him at last, and said, “Who are you who dare to feed on my limbs, and to cost me so much trouble in catching you?”

Who acts: MAN · What happens: catch, say, be, feed, cost · To what, where: friend, last, much trouble, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 MAN	det
2	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 annoyed	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 annoyed	advmod
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 MAN	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Flea	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Flea	det
9	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 annoyed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 MAN	punct
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 caught	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dare	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 dare	punct
20	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dare	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dare	cop
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 dare	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dare	nsubj
24	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 feed	mark
26	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dare	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 limbs	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 limbs	nmod:poss
29	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cost	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cost	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cost	mark
33	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 feed	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 cost	iobj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 trouble	amod
37	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cost	obj
38	in	in	SCONJ	_	39 catching	mark
39	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 cost	advcl
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 catching	obj
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a MAN	friend		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset
2	say speech: ask	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present					dare property	tree rules
4	feed in a quote	to-infinitive					on my limbs	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on limb=Patient
5	cost in a quote	to-infinitive		much trouble	me			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary trouble=Value
6	catch in a quote	gerund		you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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