The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 1
A long time ago a Man met a Satyr in the forest and succeeded in making friends with him.
Who acts: Man · What happens: meet, succeed, make · To what, where: Satyr, forest, friends
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Man | det |
| 6 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Satyr | det |
| 9 | Satyr | Satyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 succeeded | cc |
| 14 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 making | mark |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 succeeded | advcl |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 making | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 making | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a Man | a Satyr | the forest | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satyr=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | succeed | past | a Man not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a Man not said here | friends | with Man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
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.
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