More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 153

"Well," said his mother, "tell the big, big Coo there's a sharp, sharp sword at the belt of the fine, fine laddie from the wars who sits beside the weary, weary lady with the golden hair, and she weeping for a sup o' milk."

Who acts: mother, sharp sharp sword, wars · What happens: say, tell, be, sit, weep · To what, where: big big 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, sharp sharp sword, 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=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 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Coo	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Coo	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 big	punct
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Coo	amod
15	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 's	expl
17	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sword	det
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sword	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sharp	punct
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sword	amod
22	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 's	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 belt	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 belt	det
25	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sword	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 laddie	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 laddie	det
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 laddie	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fine	punct
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 laddie	amod
31	laddie	laddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 belt	nmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 wars	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wars	det
34	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 laddie	nmod
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 sits	nsubj
36	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 wars	acl:relcl
37	beside	beside	ADP	_	42 lady	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lady	det
39	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lady	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 weary	punct
41	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lady	amod
42	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sits	obl
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 hair	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hair	det
45	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hair	amod
46	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lady	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 weeping	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 weeping	cc
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 weeping	nsubj
50	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
51	for	for	ADP	_	56 milk	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 milk	det
53	sup	sup	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 o	compound
54	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 milk	compound
55	'	'	PUNCT	_	54 o	punct
56	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 weeping	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 weeping	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Coo's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Coo's mother not said here	the big big Coo			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent coo=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	a sharp sharp sword at the belt of the fine fine laddie from the wars		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit in a quote	present	the wars			beside the weary weary lady with the golden hair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside lady=Location
5	weep in a quote	gerund	mother			for a o milk	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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