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title: Mother," said he, "Coo won't stand still, and wee, wee Mannie can't… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother," said he, "Coo won't stand still, and wee, wee Mannie can't milk big, big Coo." Who acts: Mother, Coo, Mannie. 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 138

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Mother," said he, "Coo won't stand still, and wee, wee Mannie can't milk big, big Coo."

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**Who acts:** Mother, Coo, Mannie · **What happens:** say, not stand, not coo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mother, Coo, Mannie), 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:pg14241:30:138
# text = Mother," said he, "Coo won't stand still, and wee, wee Mannie can't milk big, big Coo."
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
18	Mannie	Mannie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
21	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | future | Coo |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **coo** | can | Mannie |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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