Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 115

I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing.”

Who acts: I, fear, thee · What happens: hear, not be, stand · To what, where: thee

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fear, thee), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 hear	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	11 mockest	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mockest	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mockest	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 mockest	advmod
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 mockest	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 mockest	nsubj
11	mockest	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 mockest	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 art	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 art	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 art	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 art	obl
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 art	nsubj
20	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
21	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 art	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	thee		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
2	not is	present	fear		mock property	tree rules
3	stand	gerund	thee not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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