English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 20
And because she gave no name they called her “Cap o' Rushes.”
Who acts: maid, saucepans · What happens: give, call, rush · To what, where: name, maid, Cap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, saucepans), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 2 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 gave | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | advcl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cap | punct |
| 11 | Cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rushes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 ' | case |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 Cap | case |
| 14 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | maid | no name | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | saucepans = saucepan | maid | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme rush=Result | ||||
| 3 | rush in a quote | Cap | nom rush «act transitive»: poss=patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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