--- title: Instead of flying up to greet the first rays of the morning sun or t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: Instead of flying up to greet the first rays of the morning sun or to bathe in the rosy light among the floating clouds at sunset, he would have to walk the ground more encumbered and oppressed than any common barnyard fowl. Who acts: Peacock. 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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. **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:pg19994:54:9 # text = Instead of flying up to greet the first rays of the morning sun or to bathe in the rosy light among the floating clouds at sunset, he would have to walk the ground more encumbered and oppressed than any common barnyard fowl. 1 Instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 3 mark _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 bathe bathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 floating floating NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 encumbered encumber VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 oppressed oppress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 41 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 barnyard barnyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 fowl fowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly up** | gerund | Peacock *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | Peacock *not said here* | the first rays of the morning sun | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | | 3 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | Peacock *not said here* | | | | sunset | among the floating clouds; in the rosy light | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=Theme | | 4 | **have** | would | Peacock | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Peacock *not said here* | the ground | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory | | 6 | **encumber** | participle | Peacock *not said here* | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **oppress** | participle | Peacock *not said here* | | | | | than any common barnyard fowl | tree rules | | 8 | **ray** | | | the morning sun | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/54/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/54/10/) - ↑ back to [The Peacock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/54/)