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title: Howsoever, when they were gone, she offed with her cap o' rushes and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Howsoever, when they were gone, she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance. Who acts: Howsoever. 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 36

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Howsoever, when they were gone, she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance.

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**Who acts:** Howsoever · **What happens:** be, off, clean, go · **To what, where:** Howsoever, dance

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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 (Howsoever), 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:pg7439:15:36
# text = Howsoever, when they were gone, she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance.
1	Howsoever	Howsoever	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	offed	off	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Howsoever |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **off** | past | Howsoever |  |  |  |  | with Howsoever's cap; of rushes | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument |
| 3 | **clean** | past | Howsoever *not said here* | Howsoever |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | Howsoever |  |  | the dance |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial\_Location |

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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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