English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 59

Well, the cook wouldn't at first, but at last she said yes, and Cap o' Rushes made the gruel.

Who acts: cook, Cap · What happens: not say, make · To what, where: last, 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 (cook, Cap), 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	_	14 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 said	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	14 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
18	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
19	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	22 made	mark
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
21	Rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gruel	det
24	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	the cook			last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	make	past	Cap	the gruel					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gruel=Product

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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