The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 50

'We are tired and hungry, and would fain have shelter for the night,' answered the eldest brother.

Who acts: We · What happens: be, fain, have, answer · To what, where: shelter, eldest brother

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	4 tired	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hungry	cc
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fain	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fain	aux
10	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	conj
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fain	xcomp
12	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fain	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brother	det
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	We				tired property	tree rules
2	be		We not said here					tree rules
3	fain	would	We not said here					tree rules
4	have	infinitive	We not said here	shelter		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient
5	answer speech: assert	past			the eldest brother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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