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title: The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl grew angry… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl grew angry, and could not bear the self-praises of her Brother, interpreting all he said (and how could she do otherwise?) into reflection on herself. Who acts: boy, girl. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables,
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 44

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The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl grew angry, and could not bear the self-praises of her Brother, interpreting all he said (and how could she do otherwise?) into reflection on herself.

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**Who acts:** boy, girl · **What happens:** congratulate, grow, not bear, interpret, say, do · **To what, where:** boy, good looks, self praises, all, reflection, Brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, girl), 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:pg21:13:44
# text = The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl grew angry, and could not bear the self-praises of her Brother, interpreting all he said (and how could she do otherwise?) into reflection on herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	congratulated	congratulate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	interpreting	interpret	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
37	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **congratulate** | past | the boy | boy |  | boy's good looks |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | could | the girl *not said here* | the self praises of girl's Brother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Patient |
| 4 | **interpret** | gerund | the girl *not said here* | all |  | reflection on girl |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | could | girl |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **praise** |  |  | girl's Brother |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication 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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