The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 3

But one cold winter evening, as they were walking homeward, the Satyr saw the Man blow on his fingers.

Who acts: comrades, Satyr · What happens: walk, see · To what, where: homeward, Man blow, fingers

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 (comrades, Satyr), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 evening	nummod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evening	amod
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 evening	compound
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walking	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 walking	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walking	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walking	aux
10	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 evening	conj
11	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Satyr	det
14	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 blow	det
17	Man	man	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 blow	amod
18	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 fingers	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fingers	nmod:poss
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	comrades = comrade	homeward					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory
2	see	past	the Satyr	the Man blow		Satyr's fingers	evening		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus

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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