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title: It happened once that the young one which was caressed and loved was… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened once that the young one which was caressed and loved was smothered by the too great affection of the Mother, while the despised one was nurtured and reared in spite of the neglect to which it was exposed. Who acts: It, great affection. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aeso
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 32

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It happened once that the young one which was caressed and loved was smothered by the too great affection of the Mother, while the despised one was nurtured and reared in spite of the neglect to which it was exposed.

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**Who acts:** It, great affection · **What happens:** happen, caress, love, smother, despise, nurture · **To what, where:** young one, despised one, spite, axe, neglect

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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 (It, great affection), 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:pg21:10:32
# text = It happened once that the young one which was caressed and loved was smothered by the too great affection of the Mother, while the despised one was nurtured and reared in spite of the neglect to which it was exposed.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	caressed	caress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	smothered	smother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	nurtured	nurture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	exposed	expose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **caress** | past · passive |  | the young one |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **smother** | past · passive | the great affection of the Mother | the young one |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 5 | **despise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **nurture** | past · passive |  | the despised one |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **rear** | participle |  |  |  | spite of the neglect |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **expose** | past · passive |  | axe | the neglect |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient |
| 9 | **spite** |  |  | the neglect |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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