Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 184
Give me a night's lodging, granny!" said he.--"I have neither bed nor light to offer thee," said she.
Who acts: you, brother, I, woman · What happens: give, say, have, offer · To what, where: lodging, me, bed, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brother, I, woman), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 night | case |
| 6 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 granny | punct |
| 8 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodging | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 18 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 bed | det |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 light | cc |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 offer | mark |
| 23 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | advcl |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 offer | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | advcl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a night's lodging and granny | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | neither bed nor light | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | woman | 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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