The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 10
And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid's pride.
Who acts: milk, pail, milkmaid · What happens: flow out, vanish, pride · To what, where: butter
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 (milk, pail, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flowed | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 milk | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 milk | det |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flowed | nsubj |
| 5 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 flowed | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vanished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vanished | cc |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 vanished | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flowed | conj |
| 12 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vanished | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eggs | cc |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 butter | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chicks | cc |
| 16 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 butter | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dress | cc |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dress | amod |
| 19 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 butter | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pride | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 milkmaid | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 milkmaid | det |
| 23 | milkmaid | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pride | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 milkmaid | case |
| 25 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 butter | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow out | past | all milk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | vanish | past | pail | butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all milkmaid's pride | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pride | all milkmaid | nom pride «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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