The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 2

The foolish bird got the idea that if he lived like the Swan, swimming and diving all day long and eating the weeds and plants that grow in the water, his feathers would turn white like the Swan's.

Who acts: foolish bird, bird, plants, feathers · What happens: get, live, dive, eat, grow, turn · To what, where: idea, weeds, water

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 (foolish bird, bird, plants, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 idea	det
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lived	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 lived	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	advcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 Swan	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Swan	det
13	Swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swimming	punct
15	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Swan	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 diving	cc
17	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lived	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 diving	obj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 diving	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eating	cc
22	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 diving	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 weeds	det
24	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eating	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 plants	cc
26	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 weeds	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 grow	nsubj
28	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 plants	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grow	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 turn	punct
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feathers	nmod:poss
34	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 turn	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 turn	aux
36	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	conj
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 turn	xcomp
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 Swan	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Swan	det
40	Swan	Swan	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 turn	obl
41	's	's	PART	_	40 Swan	case
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the foolish bird	the idea				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus
2	live a condition, not said to happen	past	bird				like the Swan and swimming	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dive	gerund	bird not said here			day	long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	eat	gerund	bird not said here	the weeds and plants				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient
5	grow	present	plants		the water			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
6	turn	would	bird's feathers				like the Swan; white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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