English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 6

“Why,” says she, “better nor all the world.”

What happens: say · To what, where: she · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 better	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 better	punct
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 says	ccomp
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 world	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 world	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		she					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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