Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 106

The Bramble answered: “You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree.”

Who acts: Bramble, You · What happens: answer, creature, call, mind, be, have · To what, where: axes, reason, Bramble · 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 (Bramble, 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 Bramble	det
2	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 creature	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 creature	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 creature	nsubj
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 call	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 call	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 call	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 call	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 call	advmod
14	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 creature	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 mind	mark
16	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 call	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 axes	det
18	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mind	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saws	cc
20	saws	saw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 axes	conj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hew	obj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hew	cop
23	about	about	ADV	_	25 hew	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hew	mark
25	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 axes	acl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 hew	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 hew	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 call	conj
32	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wish	mark
34	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 reason	acl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 grown	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 grown	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grown	aux
38	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 wish	ccomp
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 grown	compound:prt
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Bramble	det
41	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 grown	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Tree	punct
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 Tree	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 Tree	det
45	Fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Tree	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 Fir	punct
47	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Bramble	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 call	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Bramble			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creature in a quote		You			tree rules
3	call a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mind in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the axes and saws		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ax=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	you not said here	the axes and saws not said here	about, hew property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	would	you	reason		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
7	wish in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	reason not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	grow up in a quote	past · perfect	you	a Bramble and a Fir Tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bramble=Theme

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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