The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 7
But the Peacock stood where he was among the birds of the barnyard, while the Crane soared in freedom far up into the blue sky.
Who acts: Peacock, Crane · What happens: stand, be, soar · To what, where: freedom
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Peacock | det |
| 3 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 birds | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 birds | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 birds | cop |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 birds | det |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 barnyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 barnyard | det |
| 13 | barnyard | barnyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 birds | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 soared | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 soared | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Crane | det |
| 17 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 soared | nsubj |
| 18 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 freedom | case |
| 20 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soared | obl |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 soared | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sky | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sky | det |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sky | amod |
| 26 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Peacock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Peacock | among the birds; of the barnyard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | soar | past | the Crane | freedom | into the blue sky | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in freedom=Source into sky=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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