Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 105

But when one day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks.

Who acts: man, Doves · What happens: forget, begin, chatter, discover, drive, peck · To what, where: man, true character

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Doves), 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	_	14 discovered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 forgot	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 discovered	advcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 forgot	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgot	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 chatter	mark
11	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forgot	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 discovered	nsubj
14	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 character	nmod:poss
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 character	amod
17	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 discovered	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drove	cc
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 discovered	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drove	obj
21	forth	forth	ADV	_	19 drove	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pecking	punct
23	pecking	peck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 drove	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pecking	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 beaks	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beaks	nmod:poss
27	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pecking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	man	man	day		tree rules
2	begin	past	man not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chatter	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	discover	past	Doves = dove	man's true character			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Topic
5	drive	past	Doves = dove not said here	man		forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	peck	gerund	Doves = dove not said here	man		with Doves's beaks	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with beak=Instrument

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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