Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 23
When they were come to the house Ralph called with a loud voice to his wife, "Are you within, dame?
Who acts: you · What happens: come, call, be · To what, where: as, house · 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 (you), 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 come | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux:pass |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | appos |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 house | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dame | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 dame | punct |
| 19 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dame | cop |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 dame | nsubj |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 dame | case |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dame | punct |
| 23 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | as = a | to the house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call speech: ask | participle | the house not said here | with a loud voice to Ralph's wife | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | within dame | 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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