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title: By thus appearing before the springtime you have not only killed you… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: By thus appearing before the springtime you have not only killed yourself, but you have wrought my destruction also.” Who acts: springtime, you, my. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 7

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By thus appearing before the springtime you have not only killed yourself, but you have wrought my destruction also.”

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**Who acts:** springtime, you, my · **What happens:** appear, not kill, have, destroy · **To what, where:** springtime, you, destruction

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (springtime, you, 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:pg21:14:7
# text = By thus appearing before the springtime you have not only killed yourself, but you have wrought my destruction also.”
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	springtime	springtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | gerund |  |  |  | the springtime |  | thus *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before springtime=Location |
| 2 | **not** **kill** | present · perfect · passive | the springtime *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer yourself=Result |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | my destruction |  |  |  | wrought *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Patient |
| 4 | **destroy** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act 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:** «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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