More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 138
Mother," said he, "Coo won't stand still, and wee, wee Mannie can't milk big, big Coo."
Who acts: Mother, Coo, Mannie · What happens: say, not stand, not coo · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mother, Coo, Mannie), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mother | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mother | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 8 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 9 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 stand | advmod |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 stand | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wee | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wee | cc |
| 15 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Coo | punct |
| 17 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Coo | amod |
| 18 | Mannie | Mannie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Coo | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 Coo | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 Coo | advmod |
| 21 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Coo | nsubj |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Coo | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Coo | punct |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Coo | amod |
| 25 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wee | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wee | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not stand | future | Coo | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not coo | can | Mannie | tree rules |
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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