More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 149

"Well," said his mother, "go to the Coo and tell her there's a weary, weary lady with long yellow hair weeping for a cup o' milk."

Who acts: mother, weary weary lady, long yellow hair · What happens: say, go, tell, be, weep · To what, where: Coo, mother, o milk · 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, weary weary lady, long yellow hair), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Coo	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Coo	det
13	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 's	expl
18	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lady	det
20	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lady	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 weary	punct
22	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lady	amod
23	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 's	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 hair	case
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hair	amod
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lady	nmod
28	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 hair	acl
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 o	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 o	det
31	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 o	compound
32	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 milk	compound
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 o	punct
34	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weeping	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Coo's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive				the Coo	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coo=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	a weary weary lady with long yellow hair			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	weep in a quote	gerund	long yellow hair not said here	o milk			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=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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