More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 154
And he told the big, big Coo, but she wouldn't hold still.
Who acts: Coo, mother · What happens: tell, not hold · 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 (Coo, mother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coo | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Coo | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Coo | amod |
| 8 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 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 | 3 told | ccomp |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 hold | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Coo | the big big Coo | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent coo=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not hold | would | mother | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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