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title: And because she gave no name they called her “Cap o' Rushes.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And because she gave no name they called her “Cap o' Rushes.” Who acts: maid, saucepans. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 20

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And because she gave no name they called her “Cap o' Rushes.”

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**Who acts:** maid, saucepans · **What happens:** give, call, rush · **To what, where:** name, maid, Cap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (maid, saucepans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:15:20
# text = And because she gave no name they called her “Cap o' Rushes.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	Rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | maid | no name |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | saucepans *= saucepan* | maid |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme rush=Result |
| 3 | **rush** *in a quote* |  |  | Cap |  |  |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: poss=patient |

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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.

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**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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