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title: Then, decked in his finery, gleaming with emerald, gold, purple, and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, decked in his finery, gleaming with emerald, gold, purple, and azure, he strutted proudly among the birds. Who acts: Peacock. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 3

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Then, decked in his finery, gleaming with emerald, gold, purple, and azure, he strutted proudly among the birds.

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**Who acts:** Peacock · **What happens:** deck, gleam, strut · **To what, where:** azure

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peacock), 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:pg19994:54:3
# text = Then, decked in his finery, gleaming with emerald, gold, purple, and azure, he strutted proudly among the birds.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	finery	finery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	azure	azure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	strutted	strut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deck** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | in Peacock's finery | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in finery=Theme |
| 2 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with emerald and gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with emerald=Theme |
| 3 | **strut** | past | Peacock | azure |  |  |  | among the birds; proudly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bird=Trajectory |

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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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