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title: "Well," said she, "tell the Coo there's a fine, fine laddie from the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," said she, "tell the Coo there's a fine, fine laddie from the wars sitting by the weary, weary lady with golden hair, and she weeping for a sup o' milk." Who acts: mother, Coo, wars. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its depende
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 151

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"Well," said she, "tell the Coo there's a fine, fine laddie from the wars sitting by the weary, weary lady with golden hair, and she weeping for a sup o' milk."

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**Who acts:** mother, Coo, wars · **What happens:** say, tell, be, sit, weep · **To what, where:** 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, Coo, wars), 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:pg14241:30:151
# text = "Well," said she, "tell the Coo there's a fine, fine laddie from the wars sitting by the weary, weary lady with golden hair, and she weeping for a sup 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=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	laddie	laddie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	sup	sup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	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 | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the Coo |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | the wars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the weary weary lady; with golden hair | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lady=Location |
| 5 | **weep** *in a quote* | gerund | mother | 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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