--- title: My lodging is ever free, and ne'er refused to any knight who would f… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: My lodging is ever free, and ne'er refused to any knight who would fain be my guest. Who acts: lodging, ne'er, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/76/) [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/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/) / 76 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 76 My lodging is ever free, and ne'er refused to any knight who would fain be my guest. **Who acts:** lodging, ne'er, knight · **What happens:** be, refuse, fain · **To what, where:** guest This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lodging, ne'er, knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:5:76 # text = My lodging is ever free, and ne'er refused to any knight who would fain be my guest. 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lodging lodging NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 ne'er ne'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 fain fain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | My lodging | | | | ever | free *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **refuse** | past | ne'er | | | | | to any knight | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fain** | would | any knight | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | infinitive | | my guest | | | | my *nmod:poss* | 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:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/)