More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 79
Mother used to serve pigs when I lived home."
Who acts: Mother, I · What happens: use, serve, live · To what, where: pigs
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 | _ | 4 serve | mark |
| 4 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 serve | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lived | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 serve | advcl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Mother | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | pigs | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | 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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