The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 5

To distinguish themselves from the soldiers in the ranks, the new leaders proudly bound on their heads lofty crests and ornaments of feathers or straw.

What happens: distinguish, bind · To what, where: Mice, new leaders, heads

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 distinguish	mark
2	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 distinguish	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 soldiers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldiers	det
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 distinguish	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ranks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ranks	det
9	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 distinguish	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaders	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaders	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaders	amod
13	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ranks	appos
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	15 bound	advmod
15	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 leaders	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 heads	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bound	obl
19	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 crests	amod
20	crests	crest	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heads	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ornaments	cc
22	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crests	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 feathers	case
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ornaments	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 straw	cc
26	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feathers	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 distinguish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distinguish	to-infinitive		Mice = mouse				in the ranks; from the soldiers	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme from soldier=Co-Theme
2	bind	participle		the new leaders not said here		Mice's heads and lofty crests and ornaments of feathers or straw		proudly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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