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title: But one cold winter evening, as they were walking homeward, the Saty… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But one cold winter evening, as they were walking homeward, the Satyr saw the Man blow on his fingers. Who acts: comrades, Satyr. 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 3

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But one cold winter evening, as they were walking homeward, the Satyr saw the Man blow on his fingers.

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**Who acts:** comrades, Satyr · **What happens:** walk, see · **To what, where:** homeward, Man blow, fingers

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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 (comrades, Satyr), 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:pg19994:136:3
# text = But one cold winter evening, as they were walking homeward, the Satyr saw the Man blow on his fingers.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Man	man	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | comrades *= comrade* | homeward |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Satyr | the Man blow |  | Satyr's fingers | evening |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus |

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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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