The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 56

‘Can I lodge here to-night?’ said the man.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: lodge, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 lodge	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lodge	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lodge	nsubj
4	lodge	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lodge	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lodge	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lodge	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lodge	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lodge	can	I			here	night		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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