More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 10

Seven years have I been waiting, and no one has come to milk me."

Who acts: Seven years, I, one · What happens: have, wait, come · To what, where: milk

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven years, I, one), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 waiting	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 waiting	aux
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 have	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 have	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 milk	mark
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 milk	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	Seven years		tree rules
2	wait	participle · progressive	I		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present · perfect	no one	milk me	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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