The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 1
A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head.
Who acts: Milkmaid · What happens: be, return, shine, balance · To what, where: field, shining milk pail, head
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Milkmaid), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Milkmaid | det |
| 2 | Milkmaid | Milkmaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 out | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 out | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 out | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 milk | mark |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 out | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cows | det |
| 9 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 milk | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returning | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 returning | aux |
| 12 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 out | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 field | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returning | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pail | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pail | det |
| 18 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 pail | amod |
| 19 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pail | compound |
| 20 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 field | nmod |
| 21 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 pail | acl |
| 22 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 21 balanced | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 balanced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 out | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | a Milkmaid | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past · progressive | a Milkmaid not said here | the field with the shining milk pail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | balance | participle | the shining milk pail not said here | Milkmaid's head | nicely property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
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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