The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Nettle, sentence 1
A Boy, stung by a Nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow on the hurt and kiss it.
Who acts: Boy, mother · What happens: sting, run, cry, get, blow, kiss · To what, where: Boy, mother, hurt
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Nettle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, mother), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stung | punct |
| 4 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Boy | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Nettle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Nettle | det |
| 7 | Nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 blow | mark |
| 18 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 hurt | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hurt | det |
| 21 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kiss | cc |
| 23 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 blow | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kiss | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | participle | a Boy not said here | by a Nettle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run | past | a Boy | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | a Boy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Boy's mother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | blow | to-infinitive | Boy's mother not said here | the hurt | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | kiss | infinitive | Boy's mother not said here | hurt | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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