Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 53

They seemed to Ralph to lack courtesy; nevertheless he would not cease from his quest, nor was there any one of whom he failed to inquire.

Who acts: needs, Ralph · What happens: seem, lack, not cease, be, fail, not inquire · To what, where: Ralph, courtesy, quest, one

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needs, Ralph), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	csubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 Ralph	mark
4	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lack	mark
6	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lack	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cease	punct
9	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	13 cease	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cease	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cease	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cease	advmod
13	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 quest	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 quest	nmod:poss
16	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cease	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 was	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 whom	case
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 one	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 failed	nsubj
26	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 whom	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 inquire	mark
28	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 failed	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	needs = need	Ralph			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	lack	to-infinitive	needs = need not said here	courtesy			tree rules
3	not cease	would	Ralph		Ralph's quest	nevertheless property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past		any one		whom nmod	tree rules
5	fail	past	Ralph				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	Ralph not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	quest		Ralph				nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 53