The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 16

‘Is not your cow the best milker in all the village?

What happens: not be · To what, where: cow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 cow	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cow	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cow	advmod
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cow	nmod:poss
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 milker	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 milker	amod
8	milker	milker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cow	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 village	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 village	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 milker	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present		your cow					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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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