English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 28

And when the other maids came back she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o' rushes on.

Who acts: other maids, maid · What happens: come back, pretend, be

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 (other maids, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 pretending	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maids	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maids	amod
5	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pretending	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pretending	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pretending	aux
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	13 asleep	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 asleep	cop
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pretending	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 cap	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cap	nmod:poss
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asleep	obl
17	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	19 rushes	case
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 rushes	punct
19	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pretending	obl
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 rushes	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pretending	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the other maids		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pretend	past · progressive	maid	of rushes	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	maid not said here	with maid's cap; asleep property	tree rules

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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