Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 111

But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.

Who acts: Jupiter, birds · What happens: propose, make, protest, pluck, leave · To what, where: king, JUPITER, each, nothing

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 (Jupiter, birds), 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	_	4 proposed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 proposed	advmod
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 proposed	nsubj
4	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proposed	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 protested	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 beauty	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beauty	det
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protested	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 plumage	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 plumage	nmod:poss
15	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beauty	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beauty	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 birds	det
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 protested	nsubj
19	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	_	20 protested	advmod
20	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plucked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 plucked	cc
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 plucked	nsubj:pass
24	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 proposed	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 plucked	obl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feathers	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feathers	amod
29	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plucked	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leaving	punct
31	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 plucked	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nothing	det
33	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 nothing	compound
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 leaving	obj
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 Jackdaw	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Jackdaw	det
37	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 nothing	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	propose	past	Jupiter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	Jupiter not said here	king	JUPITER		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product
3	protest speech: disagree	past	the birds			of the beauty of JUPITER's plumage; indignantly property	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pluck	participle · passive		each		from JUPITER	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary feather=Theme
5	leave	gerund		nothing			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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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