English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 38

But, before the dance was over, she slipt off, and home she went, and when the maids came back she, pretended to be asleep with her cap o' rushes on.

Who acts: dance, home, maids · What happens: be, slipt off, go, come back, pretend

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, home, maids), 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	_	10 slipt	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 over	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 over	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dance	det
5	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 over	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	10 slipt	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slipt	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slipt	nsubj
10	slipt	slipt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 slipt	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slipt	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pretended	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pretended	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maids	det
21	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pretended	advcl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pretended	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 she	punct
26	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slipt	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 asleep	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 asleep	cop
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pretended	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 cap	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cap	nmod:poss
32	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pretended	obl
33	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	35 rushes	case
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 rushes	punct
35	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pretended	obl
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 rushes	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 slipt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dance	over property	tree rules
2	slipt off	past	dance		tree rules
3	go	past	home		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	past	the maids		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pretend	past	dance	with dance's cap; of rushes	tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive	dance not said here	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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