Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 32

But when the courtiers made as if to lay hands upon him Roland cried, "Now, if any man touch me I will cleave his head in two."

Who acts: King, man · What happens: make, lay, cry, touch, cleave · To what, where: courtiers, hands, King, head, two · 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 (King, man), 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	_	5 made	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 made	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 courtiers	det
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 lay	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 lay	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lay	mark
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lay	obj
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	14 cried	mark
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
13	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Now	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Now	punct
17	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 cried	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 touch	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 touch	mark
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	nsubj
22	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lay	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 touch	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cleave	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cleave	aux
26	cleave	cleave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 touch	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cleave	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 two	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 cleave	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle · passive		the courtiers				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	lay	to-infinitive		hands				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result
3	cry speech: express	past	King			now	Roland nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	touch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	any man	King				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
5	cleave in a quote	future	King	King's head	two			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 32

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 32