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title: As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her h… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 9

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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.

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**Who acts:** Milkmaid · **What happens:** think, settle, toss, fall · **To what, where:** matter, head, pail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Milkmaid), 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:pg19994:103:9
# text = 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.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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