More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 150

So off he went and told the Coo, but she wouldn't hold still, so back he went and told his mother.

Who acts: Coo, lady · What happens: go, tell, not hold · To what, where: Coo, mother · 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 (Coo, lady), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Coo	det
8	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hold	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hold	advmod
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 hold	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 back	advmod
18	back	back	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	Coo			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Coo not said here	the Coo		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent coo=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not hold	would	lady		still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	Coo			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Coo not said here	Coo's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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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