The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 10
The poor Jackdaw returned sadly to his former companions.
Who acts: poor Jackdaw · What happens: return
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: who acts (poor Jackdaw), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Jackdaw | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jackdaw | amod |
| 3 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 companions | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 companions | amod |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the poor Jackdaw | to Jackdaw's former companions result; sadly property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to companion=Result |
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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