--- title: 'I have a favour to ask of you, friend mouse,' said he, 'and if you… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: '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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/) / 45 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:34:45 # text = '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.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 right right ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 up up ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/)