The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 96

‘Wouldst thou rather I should be a hoodie by day and a man by night, or a man by day and a hoodie by night?’

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: hoodie

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), 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	_	3 thou	punct
2	Wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 thou	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	root	root
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	9 hoodie	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hoodie	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hoodie	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hoodie	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hoodie	det
9	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thou	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hoodie	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 man	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hoodie	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 man	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hoodie	appos
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 day	case
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hoodie	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hoodie	det
25	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hoodie	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 thou	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	I	a hoodie and a man by night			day		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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