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title: I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers ar… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers are gray as dust!" Who acts: feathers, rainbow. 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 4

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I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers are gray as dust!"

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**Who acts:** feathers, rainbow · **What happens:** dress, be, glory · **To what, where:** I, glory

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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 (feathers, rainbow), 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:pg19994:78:4
# text = I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers are gray as dust!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present · passive |  | I |  | all glory of the rainbow |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | your feathers |  |  |  |  | as dust; gray *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **glory** |  | the rainbow |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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