The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 6
Dressed in his borrowed finery he strutted loftily among the birds of his own kind.
Who acts: Jackdaw · What happens: dress, borrow, strut · To what, where: borrowed finery
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 | Dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 finery | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 finery | nmod:poss |
| 4 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 finery | amod |
| 5 | finery | finery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dressed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strutted | nsubj |
| 7 | strutted | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finery | acl:relcl |
| 8 | loftily | loftily | ADV | _ | 7 strutted | advmod |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strutted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kind | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kind | amod |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | Jackdaw's borrowed finery | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | borrow | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | strut | past | Jackdaw | Jackdaw's borrowed finery not said here | among the birds of Jackdaw's own kind; loftily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finery=Theme among bird=Trajectory |
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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