English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 58
“Let me make it,” says Cap o' Rushes.
Who acts: Cap Rushes · What happens: let, make, say · To what, where: Cap Rushes, gruel · 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 (Cap 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Cap | cap | X | _ | 12 Rushes | amod |
| 10 | o | o | X | _ | 9 Cap | goeswith |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 o | case |
| 12 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 says | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Cap Rushes = rush | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | Cap Rushes = rush not said here | gruel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Cap Rushes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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