The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 4
The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching.
Who acts: I · What happens: make, take, get, buy · To what, where: butter, market, lot
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 (I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 butter | det |
| 2 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 market | mark |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 money | det |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 buy | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 buy | aux |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 eggs | case |
| 25 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lot | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 hatching | case |
| 27 | hatching | hatching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | I | the butter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | market | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | present | I | with the money; for money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | buy | future | I | a lot of eggs | for hatching | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lot=Theme for hatching=Beneficiary |
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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