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title: The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection and care, but hates and neglects the other. Who acts: Mother. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 31

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The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection and care, but hates and neglects the other.

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** fondle, nurture, hate, neglect · **To what, where:** one, axe, other

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. 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.

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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:pg21:10:31
# text = The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection and care, but hates and neglects the other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fondles	fondle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nurtures	nurture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hates	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	neglects	neglect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fondle** | present | the Mother | one |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Experiencer |
| 2 | **nurture** | present | the Mother *not said here* | axe |  |  |  | with the greatest affection and care | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **hate** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **neglect** | present |  | the other |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |

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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:** «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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