English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 36
Howsoever, when they were gone, she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance.
Who acts: Howsoever · What happens: be, off, clean, go · To what, where: Howsoever, 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 (Howsoever), 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 | Howsoever | Howsoever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Howsoever | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 offed | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 offed | nsubj |
| 9 | offed | off | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cap | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offed | obl |
| 13 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 rushes | case |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 rushes | punct |
| 15 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cleaned | cc |
| 17 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 offed | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 cleaned | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 dance | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dance | det |
| 26 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Howsoever | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | off | past | Howsoever | with Howsoever's cap; of rushes | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | clean | past | Howsoever not said here | Howsoever | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Howsoever | the dance | away property | 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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