The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 12

They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers.

Who acts: Peacocks · What happens: not forget, punish, drive away, rain · To what, where: superior airs, Jackdaw, pecks

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 (Peacocks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 forgotten	advmod
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 airs	nmod:poss
6	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 airs	amod
7	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgotten	obj
8	toward	toward	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 airs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 punish	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 punish	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 punish	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 punish	mark
14	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgotten	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 punish	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drove	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drove	nsubj
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drove	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	18 drove	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 rain	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rain	det
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 pecks	case
25	pecks	peck	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rain	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 jeers	cc
27	jeers	jeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pecks	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not forget	past · perfect	Peacocks = peacock	Jackdaw's superior airs	toward airs = air	tree rules
2	punish	to-infinitive	Peacocks = peacock not said here	Jackdaw		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	drive away	past	Peacocks = peacock	Jackdaw	with a rain of pecks and jeers; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	rain			pecks and jeers		nom rain «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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