Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 81
When the Duke heard him speak in this fashion, he disdained to make any answer, but said to Yonnet, "Play you quickly, for it is time that we go to dinner."
Who acts: Duke, answer, time · What happens: hear, speak, disdain, make, say, play · To what, where: fashion, answer, Yonnet, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, answer, time), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disdained | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fashion | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fashion | det |
| 9 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speak | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 disdained | nsubj |
| 12 | disdained | disdain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 disdained | xcomp |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 answer | det |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disdained | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Yonnet | case |
| 21 | Yonnet | Yonnet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Play | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Play | punct |
| 24 | Play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 Play | obj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 24 Play | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 time | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 time | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 time | cop |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Play | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 time | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 dinner | case |
| 36 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 disdained | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 disdained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Duke | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Duke | this fashion | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | disdain | past | Duke | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Duke not said here | any answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Duke not said here | Yonnet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to yonnet=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | play in a quote | infinitive | Yonnet | quickly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | answer | for time | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | present | time | dinner | we nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location |
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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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