Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 72

But you, an ill-favoured and contemptible insect who delights in sucking human blood, I wish that I could have killed you even if I had incurred a heavier penalty.”

Who acts: favoured contemptible insect, I · What happens: delight, suck, wish, kill, incur · To what, where: human blood, I, heavier penalty · 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 (favoured contemptible insect, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 insect	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 insect	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 insect	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 insect	det
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 favoured	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct
7	favoured	favoured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 insect	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 contemptible	cc
9	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 insect	amod
10	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 delights	nsubj
12	delights	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 insect	acl:relcl
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 sucking	mark
14	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 delights	advcl
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blood	amod
16	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sucking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
19	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 delights	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 killed	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 killed	nsubj:pass
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 killed	aux
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wish	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 killed	obj
26	even	even	ADV	_	30 incurred	advmod
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 incurred	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 incurred	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 incurred	aux
30	incurred	incur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 killed	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 penalty	det
32	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 penalty	amod
33	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 incurred	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 insect	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 insect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	delight	present	a favoured contemptible insect		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	suck	gerund	a favoured contemptible insect not said here	human blood	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
3	wish	present	I		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	kill	could · perfect · passive		I	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result
5	incur a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	a heavier penalty	tree rules

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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