Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 43

But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.

Who acts: Goat · What happens: cleanse, not change, perish, want · To what, where: feathers, color, want, food

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat), 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	_	2 cleansing	cc
2	cleansing	cleanse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 change	advcl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod:poss
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cleansing	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	2 cleansing	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 would	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 would	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 often	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cleansing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 change	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 change	advmod
14	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 color	nmod:poss
16	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perished	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 perished	mark
19	through	through	ADP	_	20 want	case
20	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perished	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 food	case
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 perished	nsubj
24	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 change	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cleanse	gerund	Goat not said here	Goat's feathers		often property	vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	not change	could	Goat	feathers's color			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient
3	perish	past	Goat		want of food		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	want			food			nom want «state 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: «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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