The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 4
Yet he imagined that all he needed to make himself fit for the society of the Peacocks was a dress like theirs.
Who acts: Jackdaw · What happens: imagine, need, make, fit, be · To what, where: Jackdaw, dress
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), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 imagined | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 imagined | nsubj |
| 3 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 needed | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 needed | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 needed | nsubj |
| 7 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagined | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 needed | xcomp |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 society | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 society | det |
| 14 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Peacocks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peacocks | det |
| 17 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 dress | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dress | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dress | det |
| 20 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 society | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 theirs | case |
| 22 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dress | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past | Jackdaw | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | past | Jackdaw | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jackdaw not said here | Jackdaw | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fit not said to happen | infinitive | Jackdaw not said here | for the society and a dress | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Jackdaw not said here | a dress | of the Peacocks; like Peacocks = peacock | 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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