The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 46

“Why, I can run twice as fast as any of them!

Who acts: cow · What happens: run

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 (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	_	6 run	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 run	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 run	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 fast	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 run	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 any	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fast	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 any	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run in a quote	can	the cow = cow					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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