The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 11
There another unpleasant surprise awaited him.
Who acts: unpleasant surprise · What happens: await · To what, where: Jackdaw
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 (unpleasant surprise), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 awaited | expl |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 surprise | det |
| 3 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surprise | amod |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awaited | nsubj |
| 5 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awaited | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | past | another unpleasant surprise | Jackdaw | there | tree rules |
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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