The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 3

So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram.

Who acts: head · What happens: come down, rustle · To what, where: back, feathers

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 rustling	case
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rustling	amod
4	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rustling	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 air	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 air	det
9	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rustling	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rustling	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 back	det
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Ram	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Ram	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Ram	amod
22	Ram	Ram	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 back	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	head			the back of a large Ram		with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air; down, swiftly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location
2	rustle			feathers					nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient

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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