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title: Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll bu… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 6

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:103:6
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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