The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 1

The Peacock, they say, did not at first have the beautiful feathers in which he now takes so much pride.

Who acts: they, Peacock · What happens: say, not have, take · To what, where: Peacock, beautiful feathers, much pride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, Peacock), 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	2 Peacock	det
2	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Peacock	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peacock	punct
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 have	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 have	obl
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feathers	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feathers	amod
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 takes	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 takes	nsubj
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 takes	advmod
19	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pride	amod
22	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 takes	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they	the Peacock not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peacock=Topic
2	not have	past · do-support	the Peacock	the beautiful feathers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
3	take	present	Peacock	much pride	now	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pride=Value in which=Location

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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