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title: They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers. Who acts: Peacocks. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers, sentence 12

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They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers.

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**Who acts:** Peacocks · **What happens:** not forget, punish, drive away, rain · **To what, where:** superior airs, Jackdaw, pecks

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peacocks), 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:pg19994:60:12
# text = They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	airs	air	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pecks	peck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	jeers	jeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | past · perfect | Peacocks *= peacock* | Jackdaw's superior airs |  |  |  | toward airs *= air* | tree rules |
| 2 | **punish** | to-infinitive | Peacocks *= peacock* *not said here* | Jackdaw |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **drive away** | past | Peacocks *= peacock* | Jackdaw |  |  |  | with a rain of pecks and jeers; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **rain** |  |  | pecks and jeers |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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