Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 96

His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, “I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear.”

Who acts: Mother, young man · What happens: follow, beat, say, wish · To what, where: crowd, breast, something, Mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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, young man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Mother	nmod:poss
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 crowd	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beat	cc
8	violently	violently	ADV	_	9 beat	advmod
9	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 breast	nmod:poss
11	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beat	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 sorrow	case
13	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
15	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wish	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 wish	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 wish	nsubj
23	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wish	xcomp
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 say	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 Mother	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 Mother	nmod:poss
29	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 ear	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ear	nmod:poss
32	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Mother	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Youth's Mother			the crowd		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in crowd=Location
2	beat	past	Youth's Mother not said here	Mother's breast			in sorrow; violently property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent breast=Patient in sorrow=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the young man				whereupon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wish in a quote	present	the young man = man					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the young man = man not said here	something	my Mother in Mother's ear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to mother=Recipient

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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