--- title: Well, next day they says to her, “There, Cap o' Rushes, you didn't c… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, next day they says to her, “There, Cap o' Rushes, you didn't come last night, and now you won't see the lady, for there's no more dances.” Who acts: rushes, dance, more dances. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Cap O' Rushes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/) / 49 # English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 49 Well, next day they says to her, “There, Cap o' Rushes, you didn't come last night, and now you won't see the lady, for there's no more dances.” **Who acts:** rushes, dance, more dances · **What happens:** say, not come, not see, be · **To what, where:** Cap, dance, lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, more dances), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:15:49 # text = Well, next day they says to her, “There, Cap o' Rushes, you didn't come last night, and now you won't see the lady, for there's no more dances.” 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 16 case _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Rushes rush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 36 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 38 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 dances dance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | rushes *= rush* | Cap of Rushes | dance | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | past · do-support | dance | | | | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | future | dance | the lady | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | | 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | no more dances | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/50/) - ↑ back to [Cap O' Rushes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/)