Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 67

When they saw that he was well served and had all that he needed, they bade him good-night, and the King thanked them for their courtesy.

Who acts: collier, dame, King · What happens: see, serve, have, need, bade, thank · To what, where: dame, collier · 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 (collier, dame, 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 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bade	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 served	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 served	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 served	aux:pass
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 served	advmod
8	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 served	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 needed	det:predet
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 needed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 needed	nsubj
14	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bade	nsubj
17	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bade	obj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 night	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bade	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thanked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thanked	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 thanked	nsubj
26	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bade	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thanked	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 courtesy	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 courtesy	nmod:poss
30	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thanked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	collier					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	serve	past · passive		dame			well property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	have	past						tree rules
4	need	past	dame					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	bade	past	collier	dame		night		tree rules
6	thank speech: thank	past	the King		collier		for collier's courtesy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for courtesy=Attribute

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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The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 67