The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 2
“But it is not the customer in MY country!
Who acts: baby · What happens: not be · To what, where: customer, country
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (baby), 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 | _ | 7 customer | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 customer | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 customer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 customer | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 customer | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 customer | det |
| 7 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 customer | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 customer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | baby | the customer | MY country | 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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