--- title: When the Flea a second time hopped upon his foot, he groaned and sai… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: When the Flea a second time hopped upon his foot, he groaned and said, “O Hercules! if you will not help me against a Flea, how can I hope for your assistance against greater antagonists?” Who acts: Flea, Jupiter, you, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flea, Jupiter, you, your), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:15:29 # text = When the Flea a second time hopped upon his foot, he groaned and said, “O Hercules! if you will not help me against a Flea, how can I hope for your assistance against greater antagonists?” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Flea Flea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 groaned groan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 19 case _ _ 19 Hercules Hercules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Flea Flea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hope hope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 amod _ _ 40 antagonists antagonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hop** | past | the Flea | | | Jupiter's foot | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory | | 2 | **groan** | past | Jupiter | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Jupiter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **help** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | | Jupiter | | | of Hercules; against a Flea | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 5 | **hope** *in a quote* | can | Jupiter | | | | | for your assistance against greater antagonists | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for assistance=Theme | | 6 | **assist** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | against greater antagonists | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/15/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/15/30/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/15/)