Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 48

A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.”

Who acts: PEACOCK, Crane, you · What happens: spread, mock, pass by, ridicule, say, robe · To what, where: gorgeous tail, Crane, ashen hue, PEACOCK, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. 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, you), 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	7 mocked	nsubj
3	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 PEACOCK	acl
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
5	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tail	amod
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spreading	obj
7	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Crane	det
9	Crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mocked	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Crane	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 passed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ridiculing	punct
14	ridiculing	ridicule	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mocked	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hue	det
16	ashen	ashen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hue	amod
17	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ridiculing	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 plumage	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 plumage	nmod:poss
20	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hue	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saying	cc
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ridiculing	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 robed	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 robed	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 robed	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 robed	aux:pass
27	robed	robe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 saying	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 king	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 robed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gold	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 gold	case
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 robed	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 purple	cc
36	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 gold	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 colors	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 colors	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 colors	det
40	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gold	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 rainbow	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rainbow	det
43	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 colors	nmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 have	punct
45	while	while	SCONJ	_	47 have	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 have	nsubj
47	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mocked	conj
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 bit	advmod
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 bit	det
50	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 have	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 color	case
52	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bit	nmod
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 wings	case
54	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 wings	nmod:poss
55	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 color	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mocked	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 mocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund	a PEACOCK not said here	Crane's gorgeous tail		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme
2	mock	past	a PEACOCK	a Crane		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Theme
3	pass by	past	a Crane			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ridicule	gerund	a PEACOCK not said here	the ashen hue of Crane's plumage		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hue=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	a PEACOCK not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	robe in a quote	present · passive		a PEACOCK = peacock	like a king	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
7	have in a quote	present	you	a bit of color on your wings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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