The Aesop for Children, The Swallow and the Crow, sentence 2
Said the Swallow: "Just look at my bright and downy feathers.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swallow), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Swallow | det |
| 3 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 6 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feathers | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feathers | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 downy | cc |
| 12 | downy | downy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bright | conj |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | the Swallow not said here | at my bright feathers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at feather=Theme |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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