The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 1
A Raven, which you know is black as coal, was envious of the Swan, because her feathers were as white as the purest snow.
Who acts: you, Raven, feathers · What happens: know, be · To what, where: Raven
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Raven, feathers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Raven | det |
| 2 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 black | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 know | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Raven | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 black | cop |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 coal | case |
| 10 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 black | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 envious | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 envious | cop |
| 13 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 black | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Swan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Swan | det |
| 16 | Swan | Swan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 envious | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 white | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 white | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 white | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 white | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 white | advmod |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 black | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 snow | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 snow | det |
| 26 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 snow | amod |
| 27 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 white | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | a Raven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a Raven | as coal; black property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a Raven not said here | of the Swan; envious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | her feathers | as the purest snow; white property | tree rules |
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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