English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 55

The cook she set about making it when Cap o' Rushes came in.

Who acts: cook, Rushes · What happens: set, make, come in · To what, where: gruel

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 (cook, Rushes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 set	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 Cap	advmod
9	Cap	cap	X	_	6 making	obj
10	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 came	mark
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	Rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Cap	advcl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	set	past	the cook		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	gerund	the cook not said here	gruel	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary cap=Product
3	come in	past	Rushes		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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