Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 82
Do you, while receiving benefits from me and resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and unprofitable?”
Who acts: my · What happens: receive, rest, dare, describe, shade · To what, where: benefits, shade, me
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 (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dare | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 receiving | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 receiving | mark |
| 5 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Do | advcl |
| 6 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 receiving | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 receiving | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 resting | cc |
| 10 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 receiving | conj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 shade | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shade | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
| 15 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 describe | mark |
| 17 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dare | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 describe | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 useless | case |
| 20 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 describe | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 unprofitable | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 unprofitable | cc |
| 23 | unprofitable | unprofitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dare | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | gerund | benefits | from me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme from i=Source | ||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | my shade | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location | |||||
| 3 | dare | present · do-support | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | describe | to-infinitive | me | as useless | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as useless=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | 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: «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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