The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 98

Still she said nothing of this, and only replied, ‘I would rather thou wert a man by day and a hoodie by night,’ And so he was; and a handsomer man or a more beautiful hoodie never was seen.

Who acts: girl, man · What happens: say, reply, be, not see · To what, where: nothing, handsomer man · 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 (girl, man), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 replied	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 replied	advmod
10	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wert	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 wert	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wert	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wert	aux
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 wert	advmod
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 wert	nsubj
17	wert	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wert	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 day	case
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hoodie	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hoodie	det
24	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 night	case
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wert	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wert	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 wert	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 was	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 seen	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 seen	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seen	nsubj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 hoodie	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hoodie	det
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 beautiful	advmod
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hoodie	amod
42	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	conj
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 seen	advmod
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 seen	aux:pass
45	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	girl	nothing	still	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	reply speech: assert	participle	girl not said here			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	man			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	past · passive		a handsomer man or a beautiful hoodie		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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