Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 57

Perhaps she was going home to be milked.

Who acts: cow · What happens: go, milk

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 milked	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 milked	aux:pass
8	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 going	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	cow					home, perhaps property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	milk	to-infinitive · passive	cow not said here						vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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