Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 31
The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection and care, but hates and neglects the other.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: fondle, nurture, hate, neglect · To what, where: one, axe, other
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mother | det |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fondles | nsubj |
| 3 | fondles | fondle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fondles | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nurtures | cc |
| 6 | nurtures | nurture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fondles | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nurtures | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 affection | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 affection | det |
| 10 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 affection | amod |
| 11 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nurtures | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 care | cc |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 affection | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hates | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hates | cc |
| 16 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fondles | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 neglects | cc |
| 18 | neglects | neglect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hates | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neglects | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fondles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fondle | present | the Mother | one | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | nurture | present | the Mother not said here | axe | with the greatest affection and care | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | hate | present | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | neglect | present | the other | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
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: «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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