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title: “Oh, what lovely cows!” cried Helga again; “I am sure their milk mus… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, what lovely cows!” cried Helga again; “I am sure their milk must be sweeter than any other cows. Who acts: lovely cows, milk. 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 97

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“Oh, what lovely cows!” cried Helga again; “I am sure their milk must be sweeter than any other cows.

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**Who acts:** lovely cows, milk · **What happens:** cry, be · **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 cows, milk), 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:pg3282:13:97
# text = “Oh, what lovely cows!” cried Helga again; “I am sure their milk must be sweeter than any other cows.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	ccomp	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | lovely cows |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | lovely cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | must | cows's milk |  |  |  |  | than any other cows; sweet *property* | tree rules |

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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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