English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 81
And Cap o' Rushes' father was asked.
What happens: ask · To what, where: father
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 Cap | cc |
| 2 | Cap | cap | X | _ | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 asked | mark |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rushes | punct |
| 5 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 Rushes | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | aux:pass |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Cap | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | Rushes's father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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