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title: A Boy, stung by a Nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Boy, stung by a Nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow on the hurt and kiss it. Who acts: Boy, mother. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Nettle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Nettle, sentence 1

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A Boy, stung by a Nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow on the hurt and kiss it.

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**Who acts:** Boy, mother · **What happens:** sting, run, cry, get, blow, kiss · **To what, where:** Boy, mother, hurt

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Nettle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:115:1
# text = A Boy, stung by a Nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow on the hurt and kiss it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | participle |  | a Boy *not said here* |  |  |  | by a Nettle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **run** | past | a Boy |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | Boy's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **blow** | to-infinitive | Boy's mother *not said here* |  |  | the hurt |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **kiss** | infinitive | Boy's mother *not said here* | hurt |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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