The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 2
As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.
Who acts: Milkmaid, pretty head · What happens: walk, be, come
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, pretty head), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 busy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | cop |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 plans | case |
| 12 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 busy | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 plans | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 days | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Milkmaid | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Milkmaid's pretty head | with plans for the days; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | Milkmaid's pretty head not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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