Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 34
Now, friend," said Ralph, "take the dame by the hand, and lead her to the board."
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, take, lea · To what, where: dame, Friend · 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 (friend), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dame | det |
| 12 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lead | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lead | cc |
| 18 | lead | lea | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lead | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 board | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 board | det |
| 22 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lead | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | friend | now | Ralph nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the dame | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lea | past | friend not said here | Friend | to the board | 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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