Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 85

The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!”

Who acts: Scorpion, you · What happens: show, say, have, touch, lose, sting · To what, where: sting, friend, Scorpion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scorpion, 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 Scorpion	det
2	Scorpion	Scorpion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 showing	punct
4	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Scorpion	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sting	nmod:poss
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Scorpion	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 touched	cc
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 touched	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lost	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 lost	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 lost	aux
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 had	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 lost	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 locusts	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 locusts	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 locusts	det:predet
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 locusts	nmod:poss
30	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	ccomp
31	too	too	ADV	_	30 locusts	advmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 locusts	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 locusts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	gerund	the Scorpion not said here	Scorpion's sting	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sting=Recipient
2	say speech: express	past	the Scorpion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	my friend	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	touch in a quote	past	you not said here	the Scorpion = scorpion	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
5	lose in a quote	would · perfect	you	the Scorpion = scorpion	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
6	sting		Scorpion		nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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