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title: The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Who acts: Mother. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 82

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The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** try, submit, reproof · **To what, where:** vain, child

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. 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:pg21:6:82
# text = The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	remonstrance	remonstrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	reproof	reproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the Mother |  |  | vain |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **submit** | participle | the Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without remonstrance; to the reproof of Mother's child | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reproof=Theme |
| 3 | **reproof** |  |  | Mother's child |  |  |  |  | nom reproof «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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