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title: "Hold still, my Coo, my dearie, And fill my bucket wi' milk, And if… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hold still, my Coo, my dearie, And fill my bucket wi' milk, And if ye 'll be no contrairy I'll gi'e ye a gown o' silk." Who acts: you, ye, king, 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 cla
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 133

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"Hold still, my Coo, my dearie, And fill my bucket wi' milk, And if ye 'll be no contrairy I'll gi'e ye a gown o' silk."

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**Who acts:** you, ye, king, my · **What happens:** hold, fill, be, gi'e, coo · **To what, where:** Coo, bucket wi, contrairy, ye

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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, king, 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:pg14241:30:133
# text = "Hold still, my Coo, my dearie, And fill my bucket wi' milk, And if ye 'll be no contrairy I'll gi'e ye a gown o' silk."
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	dearie	dearie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
22	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	contrairy	contrairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	gi'e	gi'e	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
29	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	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 dearie |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my bucket wi |  |  |  | milk *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wi=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | ye | no contrairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gi'e** *in a quote* | future | the king *= king* | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 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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