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title: The Bramble, interrupting him, said, “But you really must have been… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bramble, interrupting him, said, “But you really must have been out of your senses to fasten yourself on me, who am myself always accustomed to fasten upon others.” Who acts: Bramble, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree an
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 97

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The Bramble, interrupting him, said, “But you really must have been out of your senses to fasten yourself on me, who am myself always accustomed to fasten upon others.”

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**Who acts:** Bramble, you · **What happens:** interrupt, say, be, fasten · **To what, where:** Fox, senses, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bramble, you), 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:pg21:15:97
# text = The Bramble, interrupting him, said, “But you really must have been out of your senses to fasten yourself on me, who am myself always accustomed to fasten upon others.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
30	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interrupt** | gerund | the Bramble *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Bramble |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | must · perfect |  |  |  | your senses |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fasten** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | yourself |  |  |  | on the Bramble *= bramble* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient on i=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | accustom, always *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fasten** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon others | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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