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title: A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impres… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun. Who acts: Peacock. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock and the Crane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 1

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A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun.

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**Who acts:** Peacock · **What happens:** puff up, meet, impress, spread · **To what, where:** Peacock, gorgeous tail

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock and the Crane. 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:pg19994:78:1
# text = A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	puffed	puff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	impress	impress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puff up** | participle |  | a Peacock *not said here* |  |  |  | with vanity | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with vanity=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | a Peacock |  |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **impress** | to-infinitive |  | Peacock |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **spread** | past | a Peacock *not said here* | Peacock's gorgeous tail |  |  | sunday |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=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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