The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 44

“Nonsense,” replied Koane, “there is so much milk in Koumongoé that he will never miss a little.

Who acts: Nonsense, Koane · What happens: reply, be, not miss · To what, where: much milk, Koumongoé, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nonsense, Koane), 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	_	2 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Koane	Koane	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 milk	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 milk	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 milk	amod
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Koumongoé	case
15	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 milk	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 miss	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 miss	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 miss	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 miss	advmod
20	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 milk	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 miss	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Nonsense			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Koane	much milk	Koumongoé	tree rules
3	not miss in a quote	future	Koane	a little		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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