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title: Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, e… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?” Who acts: Fly, You. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree an
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 70

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Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?”

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**Who acts:** Fly, You · **What happens:** escape, say, wish, see, do, add · **To what, where:** yourself, insult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fly, 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:pg21:16:70
# text = Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?”
1	Escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fly	Fly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prick	Prick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | gerund | the Fly *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Fly |  |  |  |  | mockingly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  | yourself |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | insult |  |  |  | to injury | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent insult=Patient to injury=Co-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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