The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 7
Lifting his wings he tried to rise from the ground.
Who acts: Peacock · What happens: lift, try, rise · To what, where: wings, ground
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 | Lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 tried | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lifting | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rise | mark |
| 7 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rise | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | gerund | Peacock not said here | Peacock's wings | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Peacock | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peacock not said here | the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_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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