English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 49
Well, next day they says to her, “There, Cap o' Rushes, you didn't come last night, and now you won't see the lady, for there's no more dances.”
Who acts: rushes, dance, more dances · What happens: say, not come, not see, be · 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, more dances), 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 | _ | 4 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cap | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cap | punct |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 Cap | expl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cap | punct |
| 13 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obl |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 Rushes | case |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rushes | punct |
| 16 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Cap | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 night | amod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 see | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 28 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 see | advmod |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lady | det |
| 32 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 's | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 's | mark |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 's | expl |
| 36 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | conj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 dances | det |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 dances | amod |
| 39 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 's | nsubj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | rushes = rush | Cap of Rushes | dance | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | not come in a quote | past · do-support | dance | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | future | dance | the lady | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | no more dances | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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