Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 70

A Swallow, observing what she had done, said, “You silly creature! why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?”

Who acts: Swallow, You, creatures · What happens: observe, do, say, creature, hatch, grow · To what, where: vipers, injury, all · 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 (Swallow, You, creatures), 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 Swallow	det
2	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 observing	punct
4	observing	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Swallow	acl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 done	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 observing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Swallow	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 creature	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 creature	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 creature	nsubj
14	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 creature	amod
15	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 creature	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 hatched	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hatched	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 hatched	nsubj
20	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 creature	advcl
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 vipers	det
22	vipers	viper	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hatched	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 hatched	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grown	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 grown	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grown	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 grown	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 grown	aux
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 hatched	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 inflict	punct
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 inflict	aux
32	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
33	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 inflict	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 inflict	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beginning	punct
37	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 inflict	advcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 yourself	case
39	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 beginning	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 beginning	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 inflict	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	gerund	a Swallow not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past · perfect	Swallow				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: ask	past	a Swallow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	creature in a quote		You				tree rules
5	hatch in a quote	present · perfect	you	this vipers			tree rules
6	grow in a quote	shall · perfect	creatures = creature				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	inflict in a quote	future		injury	all		tree rules
8	begin in a quote	gerund				with yourself	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with yourself=Subeventuality

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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