Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 47
And Oliver durst not go forward to take up his sword, for he feared greatly what the giant might do to him.
Who acts: Oliver, giant · What happens: not go, take up, fear, do · To what, where: sword, Oliver · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, giant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feared | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 feared | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feared | nsubj |
| 15 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | advcl |
| 16 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 17 what | advmod |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feared | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | infinitive | Oliver | durst, forward property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take up | to-infinitive | Oliver not said here | Oliver's sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | Oliver | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | might | the giant | Oliver | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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