The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 9

As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground.

Who acts: Milkmaid · What happens: think, settle, toss, fall · To what, where: matter, head, pail · 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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 settle	mark
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 settle	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 settle	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 settle	aux
8	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 settle	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tossed	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tossed	nsubj
13	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tossed	obj
16	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	_	13 tossed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fell	cc
19	down	down	ADV	_	20 fell	advmod
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tossed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pail	det
22	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 milk	case
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pail	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Milkmaid			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	settle	would	Milkmaid	that matter		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location
3	toss	past	Milkmaid	Milkmaid's head	scornfully property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	fall	past	Milkmaid not said here	the pail of milk	to the ground result; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient pail=Extent to ground=Result

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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