--- title: The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, “Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.” Who acts: Mother, Youth, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Youth, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:6:98 # text = The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, “Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 upbraided upbraid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 unnatural unnatural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 whereon whereon ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 parataxis _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 advmod _ _ 25 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 31 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux _ _ 39 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 47 cc _ _ 44 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 45 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 47 aux:pass _ _ 46 thus thus ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 disgraceful disgraceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **upbraid** | past | the Mother | Youth | | | | as a unnatural child | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | Youth | | | | | whereon *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beat** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | you | Youth | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | | 4 | **steal** *in a quote* | past | Youth | | | | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | past | Youth *not said here* | that lesson book | you | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme to you=Destination | | 6 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Youth | | | this | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **lead** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | | | | | to a disgraceful death; thus *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to death=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/99/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/)