The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 4

I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers are gray as dust!"

Who acts: feathers, rainbow · What happens: dress, be, glory · To what, where: I, glory

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 (feathers, rainbow), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 glory	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 glory	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glory	det
7	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 rainbow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rainbow	det
10	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glory	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gray	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 gray	mark
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feathers	nmod:poss
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gray	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gray	cop
16	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dressed	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 dust	case
18	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gray	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	present · passive		I	all glory of the rainbow		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	present	your feathers			as dust; gray property	tree rules
3	glory		the rainbow				nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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