The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 5

So he picked up some castoff feathers of the Peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes.

Who acts: Jackdaw · What happens: pick up, stick · To what, where: castoff feathers, feathers, own black plumes

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 picked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 feathers	det
6	castoff	castoff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feathers	compound
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 picked	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Peacocks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Peacocks	det
10	Peacocks	Peacock	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 feathers	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stuck	cc
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stuck	obj
14	among	among	ADP	_	18 plumes	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 plumes	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plumes	amod
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plumes	amod
18	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stuck	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	Jackdaw	some castoff feathers of the Peacocks					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic
2	stick	past	Jackdaw not said here	feathers = feather		Jackdaw's own black plumes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme among plume=Destination

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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