The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 5
Even the most beautiful pheasant could see that his beauty was surpassed.
Who acts: beautiful pheasant · What happens: see, surpass · To what, where: beauty · 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 (beautiful pheasant), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 pheasant | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pheasant | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pheasant | amod |
| 5 | pheasant | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 surpassed | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surpassed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 surpassed | aux:pass |
| 12 | surpassed | surpass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 see | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | the beautiful pheasant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | surpass | past · passive | pheasant's beauty | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=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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