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title: But the Peacock stood where he was among the birds of the barnyard,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Peacock stood where he was among the birds of the barnyard, while the Crane soared in freedom far up into the blue sky. Who acts: Peacock, Crane. 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 7

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But the Peacock stood where he was among the birds of the barnyard, while the Crane soared in freedom far up into the blue sky.

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**Who acts:** Peacock, Crane · **What happens:** stand, be, soar · **To what, where:** freedom

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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, Crane), 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:pg19994:78:7
# text = But the Peacock stood where he was among the birds of the barnyard, while the Crane soared in freedom far up into the blue sky.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	barnyard	barnyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Peacock |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Peacock |  |  |  |  | among the birds; of the barnyard | tree rules |
| 3 | **soar** | past | the Crane |  |  | freedom |  | into the blue sky | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in freedom=Source into sky=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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