The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 9

Instead of flying up to greet the first rays of the morning sun or to bathe in the rosy light among the floating clouds at sunset, he would have to walk the ground more encumbered and oppressed than any common barnyard fowl.

Who acts: Peacock · What happens: fly up, greet, bathe, have, walk, encumber · To what, where: first rays, ground, morning sun

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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 flying	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 have	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 flying	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 greet	mark
6	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flying	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rays	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 rays	amod
9	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 greet	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sun	compound
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rays	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 bathe	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bathe	mark
16	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 greet	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 light	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 light	det
19	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 light	amod
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bathe	obl
21	among	among	ADP	_	24 clouds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clouds	det
23	floating	floating	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clouds	compound
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bathe	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 sunset	case
26	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bathe	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flying	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
31	to	to	PART	_	32 walk	mark
32	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 have	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 walk	obj
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 encumbered	advmod
36	encumbered	encumber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 walk	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 oppressed	cc
38	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 encumbered	conj
39	than	than	ADP	_	43 fowl	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 fowl	det
41	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fowl	amod
42	barnyard	barnyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fowl	compound
43	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 oppressed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	gerund	Peacock not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	Peacock not said here	the first rays of the morning sun			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme
3	bathe	to-infinitive	Peacock not said here		sunset	among the floating clouds; in the rosy light	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=Theme
4	have	would	Peacock				tree rules
5	walk	to-infinitive	Peacock not said here	the ground			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory
6	encumber	participle	Peacock not said here				vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme
7	oppress	participle	Peacock not said here			than any common barnyard fowl	tree rules
8	ray			the morning sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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