The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 45

“Oh, nonsense; what do you know about it?” answered the cow, who always thought she was wiser than other people.

Who acts: you, cow · What happens: know, answer, think, be · To what, where: nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cow), 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 nonsense	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 nonsense	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 know	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nonsense	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cow	det
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 thought	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 thought	advmod
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cow	acl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wiser	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wiser	cop
23	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 thought	ccomp
24	than	than	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wiser	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present · do-support	you	nonsense	about nonsense	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	answer speech: ask	past	the cow			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	the cow		always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	cow		than other people; wise 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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