English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 35

But, come the evening, Cap o' Rushes said she was too tired to go with them.

Who acts: you, Rushes, dance · What happens: come, say, be, go · 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 (you, Rushes, dance), 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	_	3 come	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 o	punct
7	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 o	compound
8	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 o	punct
10	Rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tired	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tired	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 tired	advmod
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tired	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Rushes			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dance		tired property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	dance not said here		with rushes = rush	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary

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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