The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 1
A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun.
Who acts: Peacock · What happens: puff up, meet, impress, spread · To what, where: Peacock, gorgeous tail
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peacock), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Peacock | det |
| 2 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffed | punct |
| 4 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Peacock | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 puffed | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 vanity | case |
| 7 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puffed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peacock | punct |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 11 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 day | compound |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Crane | flat |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spread | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spread | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 impress | mark |
| 17 | impress | impress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spread | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 impress | obj |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tail | nmod:poss |
| 21 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tail | amod |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Sun. | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sun. | det |
| 25 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff up | participle | a Peacock not said here | with vanity | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with vanity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a Peacock | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | impress | to-infinitive | Peacock | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | spread | past | a Peacock not said here | Peacock's gorgeous tail | sunday | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme |
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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