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title: “What lovely sheep! whose are they?” cried Helga. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “What lovely sheep! whose are they?” cried Helga. Who acts: lovely sheep, sheep. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 93

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“What lovely sheep! whose are they?” cried Helga.

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**Who acts:** lovely sheep, sheep · **What happens:** sheep, be, cry · **To what, where:** sheep, Helga · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely sheep, sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:13:93
# text = “What lovely sheep! whose are they?” cried Helga.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sheep** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | lovely sheep | sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sheep | Helga |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helga=Topic |

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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.

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**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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