More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 143
Mother," says he, "Coo won't hold still, stick won't break, wee, wee Mannie can't beat big, big Coo."
Who acts: Mother, Coo, wee Mannie · What happens: say, not hold, stick, not break, not beat · 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, wee 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 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mother | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Coo | punct |
| 8 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | conj |
| 9 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hold | advmod |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 hold | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stick | punct |
| 14 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hold | conj |
| 15 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 break | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 break | advmod |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stick | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wee | punct |
| 19 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beat | punct |
| 21 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Mannie | amod |
| 22 | Mannie | Mannie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 beat | nsubj |
| 23 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 beat | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 beat | advmod |
| 25 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wee | conj |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beat | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Coo | punct |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Coo | amod |
| 29 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 big | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not hold | future | Coo | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stick | infinitive | Coo not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not break | future | Coo not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not beat | can | wee Mannie | big property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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