English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 69

“Well, then, 'twas Cap o' Rushes,” says she.

Who acts: twas · What happens: say · To what, where: cook · 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 (twas), 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	_	14 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 says	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 twas	punct
7	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 says	nsubj
8	Cap	cap	X	_	7 twas	nmod
9	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	11 Rushes	case
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Rushes	punct
11	Rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Cap	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Cap	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 twas	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	twas Cap of Rushes	cook			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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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