The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 86

‘Indeed I won’t wed thee,’ she answered, ‘an ugly brute is the hoodie.’

Who acts: I, daughter, ugly brute · What happens: not wed, answer, be · To what, where: thee, hoodie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter, ugly brute), 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 wed	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 wed	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wed	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wed	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wed	advmod
6	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 wed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wed	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wed	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 hoodie	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 brute	det
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brute	amod
16	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hoodie	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hoodie	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hoodie	det
19	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 hoodie	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 hoodie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wed	future	I	thee	indeed property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	daughter			tree rules
3	is a	present	a ugly brute	the hoodie		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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