Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 89

He ran home and told his Mother, saying, “Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently.”

Who acts: companion, Stag · What happens: run, tell, say, hurt, touch · To what, where: Mother, companion, Stag · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (companion, Stag), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Mother	nmod:poss
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 told	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hurts	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 hurts	punct
12	Although	although	SCONJ	_	14 hurts	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hurts	nsubj
14	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hurts	obj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	14 hurts	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 touched	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 touched	nsubj
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 touched	advmod
21	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 touched	obj
23	gently	gently	ADV	_	21 touched	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	companion			home property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	companion not said here		companion's Mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	companion not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hurt in a quote	present	Stag	companion			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient
5	touch in a quote	past	companion	Stag		gently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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