Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 98

The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, “Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.”

Who acts: Mother, Youth, you · What happens: upbraid, reply, beat, steal, bring, not come · To what, where: Youth, lesson book, you, this · 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, Youth, you), 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 upbraided	nsubj
3	upbraided	upbraid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upbraided	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 child	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 upbraided	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
10	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	12 replied	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 replied	nsubj
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 upbraided	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beaten	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 beaten	punct
15	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	20 beaten	discourse
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Ah	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 beaten	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 beaten	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beaten	aux
20	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 stole	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 beaten	obj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 stole	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 stole	nsubj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 stole	advmod
25	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 brought	obl
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 book	det
31	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 book	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 lesson	punct
33	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 come	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 come	advmod
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 upbraided	parataxis
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 this	case
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 come	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 led	punct
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	47 led	cc
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 led	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 led	aux:pass
46	thus	thus	ADV	_	47 led	advmod
47	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 upbraided	parataxis
48	to	to	ADP	_	51 death	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 death	det
50	disgraceful	disgraceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 death	amod
51	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 led	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 led	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 upbraided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	upbraid	past	the Mother	Youth			as a unnatural child	tree rules
2	reply speech: express	past	Youth				whereon property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	you	Youth				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
4	steal in a quote	past	Youth				first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring in a quote	past	Youth not said here	that lesson book	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme to you=Destination
6	not come in a quote	should · perfect	Youth			this		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial_Location
7	lead in a quote	present · perfect · passive					to a disgraceful death; thus property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to death=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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