Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 50

The Vine addressed him and said: “Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves?

Who acts: Vine, you · What happens: address, say, injure, crop · To what, where: mistress, Vine, leaves · 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 (Vine, 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 Vine	det
2	Vine	Vine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 addressed	nsubj
3	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 addressed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 addressed	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 injure	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 injure	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 injure	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 injure	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 injure	nsubj
12	thus	thus	ADV	_	13 injure	advmod
13	injure	injure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 injure	obj
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 cause	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cause	det
17	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 injure	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crop	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crop	cc
20	crop	crop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 addressed	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 leaves	nmod:poss
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crop	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 addressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	address	past	the Vine		mistress		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination
2	say speech: ask	past	the Vine not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	injure in a quote	present · do-support	you	the Vine = vine		without a cause; thus property	tree rules
4	crop in a quote	infinitive	the Vine not said here	my leaves			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

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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