The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 94

‘Walter is not a coward, is he?’

Who acts: Walter · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: coward, dog

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter), 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 coward	punct
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coward	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coward	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 coward	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coward	det
6	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 coward	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 he	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 coward	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 coward	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 coward	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Walter	a coward					tree rules
2	is a	present		dog					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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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