The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 6

Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair.

Who acts: May day, I · What happens: come, sell, buy, wear · To what, where: eggs, lovely new dress

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 (May day, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sell	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 comes	mark
3	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	advcl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sell	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	aux
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 buy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 buy	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	17 buy	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 buy	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 buy	aux
17	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sell	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dress	det
19	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dress	amod
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dress	amod
21	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buy	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wear	mark
23	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 buy	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 fair	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fair	det
26	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wear	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	May day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sell	future	I	eggs = egg	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	buy	future	I	a lovely new dress		with the money	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
4	wear	to-infinitive	I not said here			to the fair	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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