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title: ‘Wouldst thou rather I should be a hoodie by day and a man by night,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Wouldst thou rather I should be a hoodie by day and a man by night, or a man by day and a hoodie by night?’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 96

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‘Wouldst thou rather I should be a hoodie by day and a man by night, or a man by day and a hoodie by night?’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hoodie

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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 (I), 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:pg3454:36:96
# text = ‘Wouldst thou rather I should be a hoodie by day and a man by night, or a man by day and a hoodie by night?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | should | I | a hoodie and a man by night |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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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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