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title: You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Who acts: You, I, my. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 6

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You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless!

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**Who acts:** You, I, my · **What happens:** lie, say, be, shade · **To what, where:** cooling shade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:22:6
# text = You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless!
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cooling	cooling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | You |  |  | my cooling shade; here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  | yet |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shade** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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