Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 78
The giant did not so much as look at him, but turned away his head, for he despised Oliver as being but little of stature in comparison with himself.
Who acts: giant, King · What happens: look, turn away, despise · To what, where: head, Oliver
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 (giant, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 much | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADP | _ | 13 turned | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 despised | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 despised | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 despised | nsubj |
| 20 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 21 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 despised | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 being | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 despised | advcl |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 little | cc |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turned | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 stature | case |
| 27 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 little | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 comparison | case |
| 29 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stature | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 himself | case |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 comparison | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | the giant | at King | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past | King's head | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 3 | despise | past | King | Oliver | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oliver=Stimulus |
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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