Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 4

The File replied, “You must indeed be a simple-minded fellow if you expect to get anything from me, who am accustomed to take from everyone, and never to give anything in return.”

Who acts: File, You · What happens: reply, be, expect, get, accustom, take · To what, where: minded fellow, anything, everyone, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (File, 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 File	det
2	File	File	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 fellow	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fellow	aux
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 fellow	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fellow	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
11	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 minded	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 simple	punct
13	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	ccomp
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 expect	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 expect	nsubj
17	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fellow	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 expect	xcomp
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 get	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 accustomed	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 accustomed	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 accustomed	aux:pass
26	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fellow	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 accustomed	xcomp
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 everyone	case
30	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 give	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 give	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 give	mark
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 take	conj
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 give	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 return	case
38	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anything	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 accustomed	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the File				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	must	You	a minded fellow		indeed property	tree rules
3	expect a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything		from the File = file	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from i=Source
5	accustom in a quote	present · passive		a minded fellow			tree rules
6	take in a quote	to-infinitive			everyone		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from everyone=Initial_Location
7	not give in a quote	to-infinitive		anything	return		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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