The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 5
The Crane spread his broad wings and flew up toward the sun.
Who acts: Crane · What happens: spread, fly up · To what, where: broad wings, sun.
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 (Crane), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crane | det |
| 2 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wings | amod |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 sun. | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun. | det |
| 12 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the Crane | Peacock's broad wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly up | past | the Crane not said here | the sun. | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward sun.=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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