English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 29
Well, next morning they said to her, “You did miss a sight, Cap o' Rushes!”
Who acts: rushes, maid · What happens: say, miss · To what, where: maid, sight · 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 morning | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 miss | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 miss | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 miss | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 miss | aux |
| 13 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sight | det |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 miss | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cap | punct |
| 17 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 miss | conj |
| 18 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 Rushes | case |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Rushes | punct |
| 20 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 miss | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 miss | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | rushes = rush | maid | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | miss in a quote | past · do-support | maid | a sight | of Rushes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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