English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 91

But Cap o' Rushes' father he tried first one dish and then another, and then he burst out crying.

Who acts: Cap, father · What happens: try, burst out, cry · To what, where: one dish

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, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 tried	cc
2	Cap	cap	X	_	9 tried	nsubj
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 father	case
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	2 Cap	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 tried	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dish	nummod
12	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tried	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 another	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 another	advmod
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 tried	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burst	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burst	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 burst	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 burst	nsubj
20	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tried	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 burst	compound:prt
22	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 burst	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Cap of Rushes's father	one dish		first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Eventuality
2	burst out	past	father		then		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	gerund	father not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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