Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 52
But now Fierabras began to jeer and scoff at Oliver, "Now I know that you are vanquished, for you dare not put out your hand to take your sword for fear of me; no, you would not stoop to the ground to gain the wealth of the whole world.
Who acts: Fierabras, King, you · What happens: begin, jeer, scoff, know, vanquish, put out · To what, where: Oliver, you, hand, sword, wealth, me · 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 (Fierabras, King, 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 | _ | 4 began | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 3 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 jeer | mark |
| 6 | jeer | jeer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scoff | cc |
| 8 | scoff | scoff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 jeer | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Oliver | case |
| 10 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 scoff | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 know | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 vanquished | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 vanquished | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 vanquished | aux:pass |
| 19 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 put | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 put | nsubj |
| 23 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 dare | advmod |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 vanquished | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 put | compound:prt |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 put | advcl |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sword | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 fear | case |
| 34 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 fear | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 stoop | punct |
| 38 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 43 stoop | discourse |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 no | punct |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 stoop | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 stoop | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 stoop | advmod |
| 43 | stoop | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 ground | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 ground | det |
| 46 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stoop | obl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 gain | mark |
| 48 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 stoop | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 wealth | det |
| 50 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gain | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 world | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 world | det |
| 53 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 world | amod |
| 54 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wealth | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Fierabras | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | jeer | to-infinitive | Fierabras not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scoff | infinitive | Fierabras not said here | Oliver | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | the King = king | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | vanquish in a quote | present · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | put out in a quote | present | you | your hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 7 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your sword | for fear of me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sword=Theme for fear=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | not stoop in a quote | would | you | to the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | gain in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the wealth of the whole world | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | ||||
| 10 | fear in a quote | me | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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