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title: "Well," said his mother, "tell the big, big Coo there's a sharp, sha… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," said his mother, "tell the big, big Coo there's a sharp, sharp sword at the belt of the fine, fine laddie from the wars who sits beside the weary, weary lady with the golden hair, and she weeping for a sup o' milk." Who acts: mother, sharp sharp sword, wars. A sentence of «More English Fairy
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 153

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"Well," said his mother, "tell the big, big Coo there's a sharp, sharp sword at the belt of the fine, fine laddie from the wars who sits beside the weary, weary lady with the golden hair, and she weeping for a sup o' milk."

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**Who acts:** mother, sharp sharp sword, wars · **What happens:** say, tell, be, sit, weep · **To what, where:** big big 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, sharp sharp sword, 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:pg14241:30:153
# text = "Well," said his mother, "tell the big, big Coo there's a sharp, sharp sword at the belt of the fine, fine laddie from the wars who sits beside the weary, weary lady with the 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=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	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Coo	coo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	laddie	laddie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
53	sup	sup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
56	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	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 |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Coo's mother *not said here* | the big big Coo |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent coo=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a sharp sharp sword at the belt of the fine fine laddie from the wars |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | the wars |  |  |  |  | beside the weary weary lady with the golden hair | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside lady=Location |
| 5 | **weep** *in a quote* | gerund | mother |  |  |  |  | for a o milk | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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