The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 3
Then, decked in his finery, gleaming with emerald, gold, purple, and azure, he strutted proudly among the birds.
Who acts: Peacock · What happens: deck, gleam, strut · To what, where: azure
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 decked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 decked | punct |
| 3 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 finery | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finery | nmod:poss |
| 6 | finery | finery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gleaming | punct |
| 8 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 decked | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 emerald | case |
| 10 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gleaming | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gold | punct |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emerald | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 purple | punct |
| 14 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 emerald | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strutted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strutted | cc |
| 17 | azure | azure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strutted | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 azure | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strutted | nsubj |
| 20 | strutted | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decked | conj |
| 21 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 20 strutted | advmod |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 birds | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 birds | det |
| 24 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strutted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deck | participle | then | in Peacock's finery | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in finery=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gleam | gerund | with emerald and gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with emerald=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strut | past | Peacock | azure | among the birds; proudly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bird=Trajectory |
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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