Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 13
Shelter!" said Ralph, "I know of none, save in my own cottage, and that is far hence in the forest.
Who acts: Shelter, I, that · What happens: say, know, save, be · To what, where: own cottage, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shelter, I, that), 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 | Shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shelter | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shelter | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 none | case |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 know | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 save | punct |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cottage | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cottage | amod |
| 17 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 forest | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 forest | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 forest | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 forest | cop |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 hence | advmod |
| 23 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 26 forest | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Shelter | Ralph nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | of none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of none=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | my own cottage | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | the forest | hence 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: «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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