The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 8

But much to the Satyr's surprise, the Man began to blow into his bowl of porridge.

Who acts: much, Satyr · What happens: begin, blow, surprise · To what, where: bowl

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 (much, 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	_	11 began	cc
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 began	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 surprise	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Satyr	det
5	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 surprise	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Satyr	case
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 much	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Man	det
10	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 blow	mark
13	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 bowl	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bowl	nmod:poss
16	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blow	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 porridge	case
18	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bowl	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	begin	past	much to the Satyr's surprise		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	blow	to-infinitive	much to the Satyr's surprise not said here	Man's bowl of porridge	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into bowl=Product
3	surprise		the Satyr		nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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