The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 6
When they reached home the Man prepared two bowls of porridge.
Who acts: hands, Man · What happens: reach, prepare · To what, where: two bowls
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 (hands, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prepared | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Man | det |
| 6 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | nsubj |
| 7 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bowls | nummod |
| 9 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prepared | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 porridge | case |
| 11 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bowls | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | hands = hand | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past | the Man | two bowls of porridge | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |
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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