The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 97

“Oh, what lovely cows!” cried Helga again; “I am sure their milk must be sweeter than any other cows.

Who acts: lovely cows, milk · What happens: cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely cows, milk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cows	amod
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cows	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cows	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
10	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	flat
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 cried	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sure	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 what	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 milk	nmod:poss
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sweeter	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sweeter	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sweeter	cop
21	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 sure	ccomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	25 cows	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 cows	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cows	amod
25	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sweeter	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	lovely cows	again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	lovely cows = cow		sure property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	must	cows's milk		than any other cows; sweet property	tree rules

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.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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