The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 7

These he placed steaming hot on the table, and the comrades sat down very cheerfully to enjoy the meal.

Who acts: These, comrades · What happens: place, steam, sit down, enjoy · To what, where: meal

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 (These, comrades), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 placed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	steaming	steam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 placed	xcomp
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 steaming	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steaming	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 comrades	det
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 cheerfully	advmod
16	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 enjoy	mark
18	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sat	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meal	det
20	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 enjoy	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	past	These			tree rules
2	steam	gerund	These not said here		on the table; hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on table=Instrument
3	sit down	past	the comrades		cheerfully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	enjoy	to-infinitive	the comrades not said here	the meal		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=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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