Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 110
When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery.
Who acts: appointed day, Jackdaw · What happens: appoint, arrive, assemble, make · To what, where: birds, appearance, many feathered finery
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 (appointed day, Jackdaw), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 assembled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 assembled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assembled | aux |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrived | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 Jupiter | case |
| 13 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 assembled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Jackdaw | det |
| 16 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 made | advmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assembled | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 finery | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 finery | nmod:poss |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 finery | amod |
| 24 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 finery | amod |
| 25 | finery | finery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the appointed day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | assemble | past · perfect · passive | the birds | before Jupiter | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the Jackdaw | JUPITER's appearance | JUPITER's many feathered finery | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=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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