Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 55
When it grew late, he said to the King, "Tell me now where you live." "
Who acts: supper, burner, King · What happens: grow, say, tell, live · To what, where: King, burner · 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 (supper, burner, King), 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 | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 13 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Tell | iobj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Tell | advmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 live | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Tell | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | supper | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | burner | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | burner | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the King = king | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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