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title: But before the dance was done Cap o' Rushes slipt off, and away she… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But before the dance was done Cap o' Rushes slipt off, and away she went home. Who acts: dance, done o Rushes, maid. 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 27

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But before the dance was done Cap o' Rushes slipt off, and away she went home.

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**Who acts:** dance, done o Rushes, maid · **What happens:** be, slipt off, go

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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 (dance, done o Rushes, maid), 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:pg7439:15:27
# text = But before the dance was done Cap o' Rushes slipt off, and away she went home.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slipt	slipt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dance |  |  |  |  | done *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slipt off** | past | done o Rushes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | maid |  |  |  |  | away, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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