The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 2
The two soon became the best of comrades, living together in the Man's hut.
Who acts: two · What happens: become, live together · To what, where: best comrades, hut
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 (two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 became | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 became | advmod |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 comrades | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 comrades | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 comrades | case |
| 8 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 became | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 living | punct |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 became | advcl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 living | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Man | det |
| 14 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hut | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Man | case |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 living | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the two | the best comrades | soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | live together | gerund | the two not said here | the Man's hut | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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