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title: Never did any lady have more wit than she, and in her youth none was… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Never did any lady have more wit than she, and in her youth none was more lovely; even yet she is good to look upon.’ Who acts: lady. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 122

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Never did any lady have more wit than she, and in her youth none was more lovely; even yet she is good to look upon.’

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** not have, be, look · **To what, where:** more wit, none

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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:pg3454:34:122
# text = Never did any lady have more wit than she, and in her youth none was more lovely; even yet she is good to look upon.’
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	wit	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	obl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | any lady | more wit |  |  |  | than Rhiannon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | none |  | lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | lady |  |  |  | yet | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** «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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