English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 22
Cap o' Rushes said she was too tired to go, so she stayed at home.
Who acts: Rushes, maid · What happens: say, be, go, stay, rush · To what, where: home, 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 (Rushes, maid), 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 | Cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rushes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 ' | case |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cap | case |
| 4 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tired | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tired | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 tired | advmod |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tired | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cap's Rushes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | maid | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | maid not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | past | maid | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 5 | rush | 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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