Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 96

Having pricked and grievously torn the soles of his feet, he accused the Bramble because, when he had fled to her for assistance, she had used him worse than the hedge itself.

Who acts: Fox, viper · What happens: have, prick, tear, accuse, flee, use · To what, where: soles, Bramble, viper, Fox

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 (Fox, viper), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 accused	advcl
2	pricked	prick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 torn	cc
4	grievously	grievously	ADV	_	5 torn	advmod
5	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pricked	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soles	det
7	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 torn	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 soles	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 accused	nsubj
13	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bramble	det
15	Bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 accused	obj
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 fled	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 because	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 fled	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fled	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fled	aux
21	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 accused	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fled	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 assistance	case
25	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 used	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 used	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 used	aux
29	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 accused	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 used	obj
31	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 used	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 hedge	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hedge	det
34	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 worse	obl
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 hedge	nmod:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 accused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Fox not said here				tree rules
2	prick	participle	Fox not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	tear	participle	Fox not said here	the soles of Fox's feet		grievously property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sole=Theme
4	accuse	past	Fox	the Bramble			vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bramble=Theme
5	flee	past · perfect	Fox		viper	for assistance	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
6	use	past · perfect	viper	Fox			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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