Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 92
She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him.
What happens: not abstain, beat, encourage · To what, where: Mother, BOY
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: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 abstained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 abstained | advmod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 abstained | advmod |
| 4 | abstained | abstain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 beating | mark |
| 6 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 abstained | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beating | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 encouraged | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 encouraged | cc |
| 10 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 abstained | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 encouraged | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 abstained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not abstain | participle · passive | Mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | BOY | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | encourage | past | BOY | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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