More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 48

"The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" she said: but no, he wouldn't.

Who acts: safest bed, wind · What happens: bide, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (safest bed, wind), 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 bide	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
3	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bide	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bide	mark
6	bide	bide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 bide	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 night	punct
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 night	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bide	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 bide	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bide	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 would	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 would	cc
20	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	23 would	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 no	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 would	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bide in a quote	to-infinitive	the safest bed				night		tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	wind						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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