The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Nettle, sentence 2

"Son," said the Boy's mother, when she had comforted him, "the next time you come near a Nettle, grasp it firmly, and it will be as soft as silk."

Who acts: Son, she, you, Nettle · What happens: say, comfort, come, grasp, be · To what, where: mother, Boy, next time, Nettle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Son, she, you, Nettle), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Boy	det
7	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Boy	case
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comforted	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 comforted	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comforted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 comforted	aux
14	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comforted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grasp	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 grasp	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grasp	obl:unmarked
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 time	acl:relcl
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 Nettle	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Nettle	det
25	Nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
27	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grasp	obj
29	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	27 grasp	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 soft	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 soft	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 soft	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 soft	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 soft	cop
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 soft	advmod
36	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grasp	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 silk	case
38	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 soft	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 grasp	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 grasp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Son	the Boy's mother				tree rules
2	comfort	past · perfect	she	Boy				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	come in a quote	present	you	the next time not said here	a Nettle			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
4	grasp in a quote	infinitive		Nettle		time	firmly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	future	Nettle				as silk; soft property	tree rules

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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