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title: Said the Swallow: "Just look at my bright and downy feathers. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the Swallow: "Just look at my bright and downy feathers. Who acts: Swallow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow and the Crow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Swallow and the Crow, sentence 2

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Said the Swallow: "Just look at my bright and downy feathers.

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**Who acts:** Swallow · **What happens:** say, look · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swallow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:138:2
# text = Said the Swallow: "Just look at my bright and downy feathers.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Swallow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Swallow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at my bright feathers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at feather=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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