English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 43
Well, come this evening, Cap o' Rushes said she was too tired to go, and do what they would she stayed at home.
Who acts: you, Rushes, dance · What happens: come, say, be, go, do, stay · To what, where: home · 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 stayed | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | aux |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stayed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | stay | would | rushes = rush | home | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme what=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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