More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 151

"Well," said she, "tell the Coo there's a fine, fine laddie from the wars sitting by the weary, weary lady with golden hair, and she weeping for a sup o' milk."

Who acts: mother, Coo, wars · What happens: say, tell, be, sit, weep · To what, where: 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, Coo, wars), 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Coo	det
11	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 's	nsubj
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 's	expl
13	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 laddie	det
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 laddie	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fine	punct
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 laddie	amod
18	laddie	laddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 's	nsubj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 wars	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wars	det
21	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laddie	nmod
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 wars	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	28 lady	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lady	det
25	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lady	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 weary	punct
27	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lady	amod
28	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 hair	case
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 weeping	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 weeping	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 weeping	nsubj
35	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 o	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 o	det
38	sup	sup	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 o	compound
39	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 milk	compound
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 o	punct
41	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 weeping	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 weeping	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	the Coo		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit in a quote	gerund	the wars not said here			by the weary weary lady; with golden hair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lady=Location
5	weep in a quote	gerund	mother	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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