Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 97

The Bramble, interrupting him, said, “But you really must have been out of your senses to fasten yourself on me, who am myself always accustomed to fasten upon others.”

Who acts: Bramble, you · What happens: interrupt, say, be, fasten · To what, where: Fox, senses, yourself · 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 (Bramble, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bramble	det
2	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 interrupting	punct
4	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Bramble	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interrupting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bramble	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fasten	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 fasten	punct
10	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 fasten	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 fasten	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	19 senses	advmod
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 senses	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 senses	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 senses	cop
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 senses	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 senses	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 senses	nmod:poss
19	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 you	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fasten	mark
21	fasten	fasten	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 fasten	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fasten	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 accustomed	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 accustomed	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 accustomed	cop
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 accustomed	nsubj
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 accustomed	advmod
30	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fasten	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fasten	mark
32	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 accustomed	xcomp
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 others	case
34	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fasten	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 fasten	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 fasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	interrupt	gerund	the Bramble not said here	Fox			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Bramble				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	must · perfect			your senses		tree rules
4	fasten in a quote	to-infinitive	you	yourself		on the Bramble = bramble	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient on i=Co-Patient
5	is in a quote	present				accustom, always property	tree rules
6	fasten in a quote	to-infinitive				upon others	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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