More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 148

Mother," says he, "Coo won't hold still, stick won't break, Butcher won't kill without a silver penny, and wee, wee Mannie can't milk big, big Coo."

Who acts: Mother, Coo, Mannie · What happens: say, not hold, stick, not break, not kill, 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 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	_	22 kill	punct
19	Butcher	butcher	CCONJ	_	22 kill	cc
20	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kill	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 kill	advmod
22	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hold	conj
23	without	without	ADP	_	26 penny	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 penny	det
25	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 penny	compound
26	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kill	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wee	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wee	cc
29	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Coo	punct
31	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Coo	amod
32	Mannie	Mannie	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Coo	nsubj
33	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 Coo	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 Coo	advmod
35	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Coo	nsubj
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Coo	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Coo	punct
38	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Coo	amod
39	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wee	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 wee	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 wee	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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 kill	future	Coo not said here		without a silver penny	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	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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