More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 72

Mother used to milk-y, when I lived home."

Who acts: Mother, I · What happens: use, live · To what, where: milk y

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 y	mark
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 y	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 milk	punct
6	y	y	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lived	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 lived	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Mother	milk y					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	past	I					home property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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