Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 70

Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?”

Who acts: Fly, You · What happens: escape, say, wish, see, do, add · To what, where: yourself, insult · 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 (Fly, 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	Escaping	escape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Escaping	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fly	det
4	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wished	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 wished	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 wished	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wished	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wished	aux
12	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 revenge	mark
14	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wished	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 death	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	18 death	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 revenge	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Prick	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Prick	det
21	Prick	Prick	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 revenge	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 insect	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 insect	det
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 insect	amod
25	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Prick	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wished	advcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 done	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 see	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 yourself	case
33	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 done	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 add	mark
35	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	advcl
36	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 add	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 injury	case
38	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 add	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	escape	gerund	the Fly not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the Fly			mockingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wish in a quote	present · perfect	You				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	see in a quote	infinitive	You not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do in a quote	present · perfect	you		yourself		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	add speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	insult		to injury	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent insult=Patient to injury=Co-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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