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title: But Cap o' Rushes' father he tried first one dish and then another,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Cap o' Rushes' father he tried first one dish and then another, and then he burst out crying. Who acts: Cap, father. 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 91

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But Cap o' Rushes' father he tried first one dish and then another, and then he burst out crying.

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**Who acts:** Cap, father · **What happens:** try, burst out, cry · **To what, where:** one dish

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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 (Cap, father), 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:pg7439:15:91
# text = But Cap o' Rushes' father he tried first one dish and then another, and then he burst out crying.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Cap	cap	X	GW	_	9	nsubj	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Cap of Rushes's father | one dish |  |  |  | first *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Eventuality |
| 2 | **burst out** | past | father |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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