Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 9

I never did see such a perfect fool, both in word and in deed," said the old man to himself.

Who acts: I, word · What happens: not see, say · To what, where: perfect fool · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, word), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 see	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 fool	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fool	det
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fool	amod
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 word	punct
10	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 word	cc:preconj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 word	case
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deed	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 deed	case
15	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deed	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 deed	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 man	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	I	such perfect fool					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fool=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	word and deed						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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