Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 32

It happened once that the young one which was caressed and loved was smothered by the too great affection of the Mother, while the despised one was nurtured and reared in spite of the neglect to which it was exposed.

Who acts: It, great affection · What happens: happen, caress, love, smother, despise, nurture · To what, where: young one, despised one, spite, axe, neglect

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 (It, great affection), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 happened	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 smothered	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smothered	nsubj:pass
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 caressed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caressed	aux:pass
10	caressed	caress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 loved	cc
12	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 caressed	conj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 smothered	aux:pass
14	smothered	smother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happened	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	19 affection	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 affection	det
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 great	advmod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 affection	amod
19	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smothered	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Mother	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mother	det
22	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 affection	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nurtured	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 nurtured	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
26	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nurtured	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nurtured	aux:pass
29	nurtured	nurture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 smothered	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reared	cc
31	reared	rear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 nurtured	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 spite	case
33	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reared	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 neglect	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 neglect	det
36	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spite	nmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 exposed	obl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 exposed	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 exposed	aux:pass
41	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 neglect	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	caress	past · passive		the young one				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	love	participle						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	smother	past · passive	the great affection of the Mother	the young one				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
5	despise	participle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	nurture	past · passive		the despised one				vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	rear	participle				spite of the neglect		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	expose	past · passive		axe	the neglect			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient
9	spite			the neglect				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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