Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 105

A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.”

Who acts: FIR TREE, Bramble · What happens: say, be, use · To what, where: Bramble, FIR TREE · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FIR TREE, Bramble), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 TREE	det
2	FIR	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 TREE	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 FIR	punct
4	TREE	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boastingly	boastingly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Bramble	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bramble	det
9	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 useful	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 useful	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 useful	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 useful	cop
14	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 useful	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 nothing	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 used	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 used	aux:pass
23	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 used	advmod
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 useful	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 roofs	case
26	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 used	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 houses	cc
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 roofs	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 useful	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a FIR TREE		the Bramble	boastingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bramble=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the Bramble = bramble			for nothing; useful property	tree rules
3	use in a quote	present · passive		a FIR TREE = tree		for roofs and houses; everywhere property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for roof=Eventuality

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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