Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 82

The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.

Who acts: Mother · What happens: try, submit, reproof · To what, where: vain, child

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. 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 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 vain	case
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 submitted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 submitted	cc
8	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tried	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 remonstrance	case
10	remonstrance	remonstrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 submitted	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 reproof	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reproof	det
13	reproof	reproof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 submitted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reproof	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the Mother		vain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	submit	participle	the Mother not said here			without remonstrance; to the reproof of Mother's child	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reproof=Theme
3	reproof			Mother's child			nom reproof «communication 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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