The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 9

Angry at the cheat, they flew at him, plucking away the borrowed feathers and also some of his own.

Who acts: Peacocks · What happens: fly, pluck away, borrow · To what, where: borrowed feathers

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 (Peacocks), 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	Angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 cheat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cheat	det
4	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Angry	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Angry	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plucking	punct
11	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flew	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 plucking	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feathers	det
14	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 feathers	amod
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 plucking	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 some	cc
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 some	advmod
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 plucking	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 own	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 own	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 some	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Peacocks = peacock		at Jackdaw	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
2	pluck away	gerund	Peacocks = peacock not said here	the borrowed feathers	away property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
3	borrow	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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