Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 109

The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all.

Who acts: Jackdaw, feathers · What happens: know, search, collect, fall, stick, hope · To what, where: own ugliness, woods, feathers, wings, parts, JUPITER

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jackdaw, feathers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Jackdaw	det
2	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 collected	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knowing	punct
4	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Jackdaw	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ugliness	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ugliness	amod
7	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knowing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 searched	punct
9	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ugliness	acl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 woods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 searched	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fields	cc
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 woods	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 collected	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 collected	cc
17	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 feathers	det
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 collected	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fallen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fallen	aux
22	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 feathers	acl:relcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 wings	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wings	det
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fallen	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 companions	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 companions	nmod:poss
28	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wings	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stuck	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stuck	cc
31	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 collected	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stuck	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 parts	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 parts	det
35	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stuck	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 body	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 body	nmod:poss
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 parts	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hoping	punct
40	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 stuck	advcl
41	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	40 hoping	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 make	mark
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hoping	advcl
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 make	obj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 beautiful	det
46	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	47 beautiful	advmod
47	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 make	xcomp
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 beautiful	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	gerund	the Jackdaw not said here	JUPITER's own ugliness			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ugliness=Stimulus
2	search	participle		JUPITER's own ugliness not said here	the woods and fields		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Location
3	collect	past	the Jackdaw	the feathers			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
4	fall	past · perfect	the feathers		the wings of JUPITER's companions		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wing=Initial_Location
5	stick	past	the Jackdaw not said here	feathers = feather	all parts of JUPITER's body		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in part=Destination
6	hope	gerund	the Jackdaw not said here			thereby property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	make	to-infinitive	the Jackdaw not said here	JUPITER		beautiful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product

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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