Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 53

One very cold wintry day, as they talked, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and blew on them.

Who acts: MAN · What happens: talk, put, blow · To what, where: fingers

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
4	wintry	wintry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 talked	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talked	nsubj
9	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Man	det
12	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 talked	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mouth	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mouth	nmod:poss
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blew	cc
20	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 blew	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	MAN		day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past	the Man	Satyr's fingers		to Satyr's mouth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
3	blow	past	the Man not said here			on MAN	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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