Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 74

So be it," answered the King; "but at least if you will not take pay, come to the Court with a load of fuel as soon as may be; I warrant that if you will do so, you will make good profit of your goods." "

Who acts: you, I, goods · What happens: be, answer, not take, come, warrant, do · To what, where: pay, King, least, good profit · 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, I, goods), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 it	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 it	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 it	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 come	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 take	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 take	advmod
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 least	advcl
19	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Court	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Court	det
24	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 load	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 load	det
27	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 fuel	case
29	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 load	nmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 soon	advmod
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 come	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 be	mark
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 soon	advcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 warrant	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 warrant	nsubj
37	warrant	warrant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 make	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 do	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 do	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 make	advcl
43	so	so	ADV	_	42 do	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 do	punct
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 make	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 make	aux
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 warrant	advcl
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 profit	amod
49	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 goods	case
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 goods	nmod:poss
52	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	49 profit	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 warrant	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 warrant	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		pay				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past			the King			tree rules
3	not take a condition, not said to happen	future	you	pay				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme
4	come	infinitive				least	to the Court; with a load of fuel; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
5	warrant	present	I					tree rules
6	do	future	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make	future	you	good profit of your goods				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Product
8	profit		your goods					nom profit «possession intransitive»: of=agent

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 74