The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 4

'Good evening!' she said; 'could you give me a night's lodging for myself and my doe?'

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: say, give · To what, where: lodging, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you), 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	_	3 evening	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lodging	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 night	case
17	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 myself	case
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 give	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 doe	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 doe	nmod:poss
22	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 myself	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	could	you	a night's lodging	me			for myself	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Theme for myself=Asset

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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