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title: Having pricked and grievously torn the soles of his feet, he accused… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Having pricked and grievously torn the soles of his feet, he accused the Bramble because, when he had fled to her for assistance, she had used him worse than the hedge itself. Who acts: Fox, viper. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tr
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 96

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Having pricked and grievously torn the soles of his feet, he accused the Bramble because, when he had fled to her for assistance, she had used him worse than the hedge itself.

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**Who acts:** Fox, viper · **What happens:** have, prick, tear, accuse, flee, use · **To what, where:** soles, Bramble, viper, Fox

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, viper), 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:pg21:15:96
# text = Having pricked and grievously torn the soles of his feet, he accused the Bramble because, when he had fled to her for assistance, she had used him worse than the hedge itself.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	grievously	grievously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	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	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	34	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prick** | participle | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tear** | participle | Fox *not said here* | the soles of Fox's feet |  |  |  | grievously *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location sole=Theme |
| 4 | **accuse** | past | Fox | the Bramble |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bramble=Theme |
| 5 | **flee** | past · perfect | Fox |  | viper |  |  | for assistance | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **use** | past · perfect | viper | Fox |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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