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title: And when the other maids came back she was pretending to be asleep w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the other maids came back she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o' rushes on. Who acts: other maids, 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 28

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And when the other maids came back she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o' rushes on.

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**Who acts:** other maids, maid · **What happens:** come back, pretend, be

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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 (other maids, 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:pg7439:15:28
# text = And when the other maids came back she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o' rushes on.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | the other maids |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | past · progressive | maid |  |  |  |  | of rushes | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with maid's cap; asleep *property* | tree rules |

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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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