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title: "Well," said his mother, "go to the Coo and tell her there's a weary… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," said his mother, "go to the Coo and tell her there's a weary, weary lady with long yellow hair weeping for a cup o' milk." Who acts: mother, weary weary lady, long yellow hair. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 149

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"Well," said his mother, "go to the Coo and tell her there's a weary, weary lady with long yellow hair weeping for a cup o' milk."

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**Who acts:** mother, weary weary lady, long yellow hair · **What happens:** say, go, tell, be, weep · **To what, where:** Coo, mother, o milk · **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, weary weary lady, long yellow hair), 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:pg14241:30:149
# text = "Well," said his mother, "go to the Coo and tell her there's a weary, weary lady with long yellow hair weeping for a cup o' milk."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|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	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Coo's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the Coo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to coo=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a weary weary lady with long yellow hair |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **weep** *in a quote* | gerund | long yellow hair *not said here* | o milk |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=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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