The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 8

They will come and try to make love to me,--but I shall very quickly send them about their business!"

Who acts: men, I · What happens: come, try, make, send · To what, where: love, me, men

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 (men, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 try	cc
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 make	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 send	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 send	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 send	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 send	aux
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 quickly	advmod
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 send	advmod
18	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 send	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 business	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 business	nmod:poss
22	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 send	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	future	men = man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	infinitive	men = man not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	love	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset love=Product
4	send	shall	I	men = man		about men's business; quickly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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