English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 70
“Send Cap o' Rushes here,” says he.
What happens: send, say · To what, where: Cap, man · 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: 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 Send | punct |
| 2 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 3 | Cap | cap | X | _ | 2 Send | obj |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 Rushes | case |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rushes | punct |
| 6 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Send | obl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Send | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | infinitive | Cap | here | of Rushes | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cap=Theme of rush=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | man | tree rules |
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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