More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 133

"Hold still, my Coo, my dearie, And fill my bucket wi' milk, And if ye 'll be no contrairy I'll gi'e ye a gown o' silk."

Who acts: you, ye, king, my · What happens: hold, fill, be, gi'e, coo · To what, where: Coo, bucket wi, contrairy, ye

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye, king, my), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 Hold	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Coo	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Coo	nmod:poss
6	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dearie	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dearie	nmod:poss
9	dearie	dearie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Coo	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fill	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 fill	cc
12	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Hold	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wi	nmod:poss
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wi	compound
15	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fill	obj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 milk	punct
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fill	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gi'e	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 gi'e	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 contrairy	mark
21	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 contrairy	nsubj
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 contrairy	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 contrairy	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 contrairy	det
25	contrairy	contrairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gi'e	advcl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 gi'e	nsubj
27	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 gi'e	aux
28	gi'e	gi'e	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Hold	conj
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 gi'e	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 silk	det
31	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 o	compound
32	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 silk	compound
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 o	punct
34	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gi'e	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my Coo and my dearie	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=Theme
2	fill in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	my bucket wi		milk obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wi=Patient
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	ye	no contrairy			tree rules
4	gi'e in a quote	future	the king = king	ye			tree rules
5	coo in a quote		my				nom coo «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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