Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 69
When Fierabras saw what Oliver had done, he changed colour and said, "O Baptism, my good sword, what is this?
Who acts: Fierabras, Oliver, Baptism · What happens: see, do, change, say, be · To what, where: colour, this · 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, Oliver, Baptism), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 done | obj |
| 5 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Baptism | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Baptism | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 Baptism | discourse |
| 17 | Baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sword | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sword | nmod:poss |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sword | amod |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Baptism | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 this | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 this | cop |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Baptism | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Fierabras | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | Oliver | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | change | past | Oliver | colour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Oliver not said here | Baptism and my good sword ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Baptism and my good sword | this | tree rules |
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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