English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 27
But before the dance was done Cap o' Rushes slipt off, and away she went home.
Who acts: dance, done o Rushes, maid · What happens: be, slipt off, go
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 (dance, done o 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 | _ | 11 slipt | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 done | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dance | det |
| 4 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | cop |
| 6 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rushes | amod |
| 7 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 o | compound |
| 8 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rushes | compound |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 o | case |
| 10 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slipt | nsubj |
| 11 | slipt | slipt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 slipt | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slipt | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | done property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slipt off | past | done o Rushes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | maid | away, home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «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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