The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 82

‘We can give you no such accommodation,’ they said, ‘for we have none of the things that are needful when a great lord like you is to be entertained.

Who acts: We, folks, things, great lord · What happens: give, say, have, be · To what, where: such accommodation, you, none · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, folks, things, great lord), 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 give	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 accommodation	det
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 accommodation	amod
8	accommodation	accommodation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
18	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 have	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 things	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 things	det
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 none	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 needful	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 needful	cop
24	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	acl:relcl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 entertained	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lord	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lord	amod
28	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 entertained	nsubj
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 lord	nmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 entertained	cop
32	to	to	PART	_	34 entertained	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 entertained	cop
34	entertained	entertained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 needful	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	can	We	no such accommodation	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient accommodation=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	folks = folk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	we	none			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
4	is	present	the things			needful property	tree rules
5	is	present	a great lord like you			entertained property	tree rules

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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