English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 39
Next day they said to her again, “Well, Cap o' Rushes, you should ha' been there to see the lady.
Who acts: rushes, dance · What happens: say, ha, be, see · To what, where: Cap, dance, lady · 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, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cap | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cap | punct |
| 10 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 Cap | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 12 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 13 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 Rushes | case |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rushes | punct |
| 15 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Cap | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ha | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 ha | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 ha | aux |
| 19 | ha | ha | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 there | punct |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 there | cop |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 ha | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 there | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lady | det |
| 26 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | rushes = rush | Cap of Rushes | dance | again; day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ha in a quote | should | dance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | participle | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=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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