Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 96
They have not come," answered Oliver, "because they think too meanly of you."
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: not come, answer, think · To what, where: Oliver · 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 (Oliver), 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 | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 8 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 meanly | advmod |
| 15 | meanly | meanly | ADV | _ | 13 think | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 meanly | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | present | Oliver | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Oliver | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oliver=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Oliver | meanly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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