English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 48

Well, before the dance was over, off she slipped, and home she went, and when the maids came home she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o' rushes on.

Who acts: dance, home, maids · What happens: be, slip, go, come, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 slipped	discourse
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	_	11 slipped	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slipped	punct
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 slipped	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slipped	nsubj
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	11 slipped	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pretending	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pretending	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 pretending	advcl
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pretending	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pretending	aux
26	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 slipped	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 asleep	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 asleep	cop
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pretending	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 pretending	obl
33	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	35 rushes	case
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 rushes	punct
35	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pretending	obl
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 rushes	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dance	over property	tree rules
2	slip	past	dance		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go	past	home		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the maids	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pretend	past · progressive	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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