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title: The father embraced them both, and bestowing his kisses and affectio… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The father embraced them both, and bestowing his kisses and affection impartially on each, said, “I wish you both would look into the mirror every day: you, my son, that you may not spoil your beauty by evil conduct; and you, my daughter, that you may make up for your lack of beauty by your virtues.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 46

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The father embraced them both, and bestowing his kisses and affection impartially on each, said, “I wish you both would look into the mirror every day: you, my son, that you may not spoil your beauty by evil conduct; and you, my daughter, that you may make up for your lack of beauty by your virtues.”

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**Who acts:** father, I, both, you, your · **What happens:** embrace, bestow, say, wish, look, son · **To what, where:** Brother, kisses, each, you, beauty · **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 (father, I, both, you), 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:pg21:13:46
# text = The father embraced them both, and bestowing his kisses and affection impartially on each, said, “I wish you both would look into the mirror every day: you, my son, that you may not spoil your beauty by evil conduct; and you, my daughter, that you may make up for your lack of beauty by your virtues.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bestowing	bestow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	impartially	impartially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	by	by	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | the father | Brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bestow** | gerund | the father *not said here* | FATHER's kisses and affection |  | each |  | impartially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | would | both |  |  |  | day | into the mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mirror=Theme |
| 6 | **son** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **spoil** *in a quote* | may | you | your beauty |  |  |  | by evil conduct | tree rules |
| 8 | **make up** *in a quote* | may | you |  |  |  |  | for your lack of beauty; by your virtues | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **kiss** |  | FATHER |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **lack** *in a quote* |  | your | beauty |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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