The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 3
"This good, rich milk," she mused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn.
Who acts: This, Milkmaid · What happens: milk, muse, give, churn · To what, where: plenty, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 milk | nsubj |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 milk | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 milk | amod |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mused | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mused | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mused | nsubj |
| 10 | mused | muse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mused | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cream | case |
| 18 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plenty | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 churn | mark |
| 20 | churn | churn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 plenty | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | milk in a quote | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | muse | past | Milkmaid | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | Milkmaid not said here | plenty of cream | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 4 | churn in a quote | to-infinitive | Milkmaid not said here | plenty of cream not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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