More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 134

But the big, big Coo wouldn't hold still. "

Who acts: big big Coo · What happens: not hold

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 (big big Coo), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 hold	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Coo	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Coo	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Coo	amod
6	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hold	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hold	advmod
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	still	still	ADV	_	9 hold	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hold	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	would	the big big Coo				still		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: «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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