The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 1
A Jackdaw chanced to fly over the garden of the King's palace.
What happens: chance, fly · To what, where: Jackdaw, garden
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Jackdaw | det |
| 2 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chanced | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fly | mark |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chanced | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fly | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 King | case |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | participle | a Jackdaw | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | the garden of the King's palace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over garden=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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