The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 45

'I have a favour to ask of you, friend mouse,' said he, 'and if you will grant it I will carry you on my back every night for a week to the patch of maize right up the hill.'

Who acts: I, Wolf, you · What happens: have, ask, say, grant, carry · To what, where: favour, turn, you, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (I, Wolf, 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 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 favour	det
5	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 favour	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ask	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mouse	punct
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouse	compound
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 favour	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carry	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 grant	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 grant	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grant	aux
23	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 carry	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grant	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 carry	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 carry	aux
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 carry	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl:unmarked
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 week	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 week	det
36	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 patch	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 patch	det
39	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 maize	case
41	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 patch	nmod
42	right	right	ADV	_	45 hill	advmod
43	up	up	ADP	_	45 hill	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hill	det
45	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 carry	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a favour and friend mouse				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here	a favour and friend mouse not said here			of you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	Wolf					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	grant a condition, not said to happen	future	you	turn				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	carry	future	I	you	my back	night; week	to the patch of maize; up the hill	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to patch=Destination

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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