The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 2
There he saw with much wonder and envy a flock of royal Peacocks in all the glory of their splendid plumage.
Who acts: Jackdaw, splendid plumage · What happens: see, envy, glory · To what, where: flock
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 (Jackdaw, splendid plumage), 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 | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 wonder | case |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wonder | amod |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 envy | cc |
| 8 | envy | envy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flock | det |
| 10 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 envy | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Peacocks | case |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Peacocks | amod |
| 13 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flock | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 glory | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 glory | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glory | det |
| 17 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Peacocks | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 plumage | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 20 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plumage | amod |
| 21 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glory | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jackdaw | there | with much wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | envy | infinitive | Jackdaw not said here | a flock of royal Peacocks in all glory of Peacocks's splendid plumage | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | glory | Peacocks's splendid plumage | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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