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title: A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothi… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.” Who acts: FIR TREE, Bramble. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 105

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A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.”

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**Who acts:** FIR TREE, Bramble · **What happens:** say, be, use · **To what, where:** Bramble, FIR TREE · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FIR TREE, Bramble), 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:pg21:6:105
# text = A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	FIR	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	TREE	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	boastingly	boastingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a FIR TREE |  | the Bramble |  |  | boastingly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bramble=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Bramble *= bramble* |  |  |  |  | for nothing; useful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | a FIR TREE *= tree* |  |  |  | for roofs and houses; everywhere *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for roof=Eventuality |

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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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