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title: "Hout!" says his mother, "go to the Butcher and bid him kill Coo." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hout!" says his mother, "go to the Butcher and bid him kill Coo." Who acts: mother. 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 144

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"Hout!" says his mother, "go to the Butcher and bid him kill Coo."

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** hout, say, go, bid, kill · **To what, where:** Butcher, 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), 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:pg14241:30:144
# text = "Hout!" says his mother, "go to the Butcher and bid him kill Coo."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hout	hout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Butcher	Butcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Coo	Coo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hout** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Coo's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the Butcher |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to butcher=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **bid** *in a quote* | past |  | Coo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Coo |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=Theme |

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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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