The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 3
Now the black Jackdaw was not a very handsome bird, nor very refined in manner.
Who acts: black Jackdaw · What happens: not be, refine · To what, where: handsome bird, manner
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 (black 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bird | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jackdaw | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Jackdaw | amod |
| 4 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bird | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bird | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 handsome | advmod |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 refined | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 refined | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 refined | advmod |
| 14 | refined | refine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bird | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 refined | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the black Jackdaw | a handsome bird | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refine | participle | the black Jackdaw not said here | manner | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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