Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 19

The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might.

Who acts: vanquished Cock · What happens: vanquish, skulk away, hide, fly up, flap, crow · To what, where: One, quiet corner, wings

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vanquished Cock), 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	3 Cock	det
2	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Cock	amod
3	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skulked	nsubj
4	skulked	skulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 skulked	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hid	cc
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skulked	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 hid	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 corner	amod
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 conqueror	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 conqueror	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 conqueror	det
16	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flying	punct
18	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hid	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 flying	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 wall	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wall	det
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wall	amod
23	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flapped	punct
25	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skulked	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wings	nmod:poss
27	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flapped	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crowed	cc
29	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flapped	conj
30	exultingly	exultingly	ADV	_	29 crowed	advmod
31	with	with	SCONJ	_	34 might	mark
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 might	det:predet
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 might	nmod:poss
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 crowed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 skulked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vanquish	participle					tree rules
2	skulk away	past	the vanquished Cock			away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	past	the vanquished Cock not said here	One	a quiet corner	the conqueror obl	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location
4	fly up	gerund	the vanquished Cock not said here			to a high wall result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wall=Result
5	flap	past		One's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
6	crow	past				exultingly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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