Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 100
But Fierabras saw that the blood was not from the horse and said: "You speak no truth when you say that you are not hurt.
Who acts: Fierabras, blood, You · What happens: see, not be, say, speak, not hurt · To what, where: truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fierabras, blood, You), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 horse | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blood | det |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 horse | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 horse | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 speak | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 speak | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 truth | det |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speak | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 say | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 speak | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 hurt | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 hurt | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hurt | aux:pass |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 hurt | advmod |
| 27 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 say | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Fierabras | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | the blood | from the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | You | no truth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not hurt in a quote | present · passive | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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