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title: A long time ago a Man met a Satyr in the forest and succeeded in mak… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A long time ago a Man met a Satyr in the forest and succeeded in making friends with him. Who acts: Man. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 1

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A long time ago a Man met a Satyr in the forest and succeeded in making friends with him.

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**Who acts:** Man · **What happens:** meet, succeed, make · **To what, where:** Satyr, forest, friends

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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 (Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:136:1
# text = A long time ago a Man met a Satyr in the forest and succeeded in making friends with him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | a Man | a Satyr |  | the forest | time |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satyr=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | a Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | a Man *not said here* | friends |  |  |  | with Man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |

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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.

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**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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