The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 6
Presently the Peacock saw an Eagle soaring high up in the blue sky and felt a desire to fly, as he had been accustomed to do.
Who acts: Peacock, Eagle · What happens: see, soar, feel, fly, accustom, do · To what, where: Eagle, desire, Peacock
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, Eagle), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Peacock | det |
| 3 | Peacock | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Eagle | det |
| 6 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 up | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 soaring | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sky | amod |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soaring | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 desire | det |
| 17 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fly | mark |
| 19 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 desire | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 accustomed | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 accustomed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 accustomed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 accustomed | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 25 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 felt | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 accustomed | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Peacock | a Eagle | presently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | soar | gerund | a Eagle not said here | in the blue sky | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sky=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the Peacock not said here | a desire | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | to-infinitive | the Peacock not said here | a desire not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | Peacock | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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