English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 23
But when they were gone she offed with her cap o' rushes, and cleaned herself, and went to the dance.
Who acts: rushes, maid · What happens: be, off, clean, go · To what, where: maid, dance
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 offed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 offed | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 offed | nsubj |
| 7 | offed | off | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cap | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offed | obl |
| 11 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 rushes | case |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 rushes | punct |
| 13 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 offed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cleaned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cleaned | cc |
| 16 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 offed | parataxis |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 cleaned | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cleaned | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dance | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dance | det |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 offed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | rushes = rush | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | off | past | maid | with maid's cap; of rushes | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | clean | past | maid | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the dance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location |
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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