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title: "Hold still, my Coo, my hinny, Hold still, my hinny, my Coo, And ye… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hold still, my Coo, my hinny, Hold still, my hinny, my Coo, And ye shall have for your dinner What but a milk white doo." Who acts: you, ye, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 130

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"Hold still, my Coo, my hinny, Hold still, my hinny, my Coo, And ye shall have for your dinner What but a milk white doo."

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**Who acts:** you, ye, my · **What happens:** hold, have, coo · **To what, where:** Coo, hinny

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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 (you, ye, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:30:130
# text = "Hold still, my Coo, my hinny, Hold still, my hinny, my Coo, And ye shall have for your dinner What but a milk white doo."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hinny	hinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hinny	hinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	conj	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	doo	doo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my Coo and my hinny |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my hinny and my Coo |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hinny=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | for your dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **coo** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom coo «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **coo** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom coo «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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