The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 2

These, Juno, whose favorite he was, granted to him one day when he begged her for a train of feathers to distinguish him from the other birds.

Who acts: Juno · What happens: grant, beg, distinguish · To what, where: Juno, Peacock, her

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 (Juno), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 Juno	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Juno	punct
3	Juno	Juno	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 begged	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 favorite	punct
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 favorite	nmod:poss
6	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Juno	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 granted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 granted	aux:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 granted	punct
10	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 favorite	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 granted	obl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 granted	obl:unmarked
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 begged	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 train	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 train	det
21	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 feathers	case
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 train	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 distinguish	mark
25	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 distinguish	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 birds	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 birds	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 birds	amod
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 distinguish	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grant	past · passive		Juno	Peacock	day		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal
2	beg speech: request	past	this Juno		her = she		for a train of feathers	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient for train=Topic
3	distinguish	to-infinitive	this Juno not said here	Peacock			from the other birds	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme from bird=Co-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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