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title: But when they were gone she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they were gone she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance. Who acts: rushes, dance. 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 44

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But 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:** rushes, dance · **What happens:** go, off, clean · **To what, where:** 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 (rushes, dance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7439:572`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:15:44
# text = But when they were gone she offed with her cap o' rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	offed	off	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	case	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · passive | rushes *= rush* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **off** | past | dance |  |  |  |  | with dance's cap of rushes | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument |
| 3 | **clean** | past | dance *not said here* | dance |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | dance |  |  | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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