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title: "The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" she said: but no,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" she said: but no, he wouldn't. Who acts: safest bed, wind. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 48

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"The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" she said: but no, he wouldn't.

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**Who acts:** safest bed, wind · **What happens:** bide, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (safest bed, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:16:48
# text = "The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" she said: but no, he wouldn't.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the safest bed |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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