Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 79

The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs.

Who acts: man, elder woman, admirer · What happens: court, make, visit, pull out · To what, where: point, hair, portion

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, elder woman, admirer), 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	3 woman	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 courted	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 courted	aux:pass
8	courted	court	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ashamed	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 courted	obl
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 man	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 younger	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 point	det
18	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 visited	punct
20	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 visited	advmod
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 admirer	nmod:poss
22	admirer	admirer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 visited	nsubj
23	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 visited	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pull	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pull	mark
27	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 visited	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 pull	compound:prt
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 portion	det
30	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pull	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 hairs	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hairs	nmod:poss
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hairs	amod
34	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 portion	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	court	to-infinitive · passive	a man			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	the elder woman	a point		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Product
3	visit	past	hair's admirer	hair	whenever property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
4	pull out	to-infinitive	hair's admirer not said here	some portion of MAN's black hairs		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: «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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