English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 44
But when they were gone she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance.
Who acts: rushes, dance · What happens: go, off, clean · To what, where: 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 (rushes, dance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:572): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 offed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 offed | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 offed | nsubj |
| 7 | offed | off | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cap | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offed | obl |
| 11 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 rushes | case |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 rushes | punct |
| 13 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cap | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cleaned | cc |
| 15 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 offed | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 cleaned | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 offed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 dance | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dance | det |
| 24 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 offed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | rushes = rush | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | off | past | dance | with dance's cap of rushes | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | clean | past | dance not said here | dance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | dance | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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