The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 4

But though he washed and washed all day long, almost drowning himself at it, his feathers remained as black as ever.

Who acts: bird, feathers · What happens: wash, drown, remain · To what, where: bird, home

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 (bird, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 remained	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 washed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 washed	nsubj
4	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 remained	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 washed	cc
6	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 washed	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 washed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drowning	punct
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 drowning	advmod
12	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 washed	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 drowning	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drowning	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 washed	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feathers	nmod:poss
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 remained	nsubj
19	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 black	case
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remained	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 ever	case
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 remained	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	bird					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wash	past	bird not said here			day	long property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drown	gerund	bird not said here	bird	home		almost property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	remain	past	bird's feathers				as black	vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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