Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 4
When he had done this, Fierabras said, "Now, noble sir, carry me away from this place, for of my own strength I cannot go."
Who acts: Oliver, Fierabras, noble sir · What happens: do, say, carry, not go · To what, where: this, Fierabras, own strength · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, Fierabras, noble sir), 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 | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 carry | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sir | punct |
| 13 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sir | amod |
| 14 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sir | punct |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 carry | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 away | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 strength | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 strength | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 for | fixed |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 strength | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 strength | amod |
| 27 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | parataxis |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 go | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 strength | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Oliver | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fierabras | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | infinitive | noble sir | Fierabras | now | my own strength parataxis; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 4 | not go in a quote | can | Fierabras | my own strength not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strength=Theme |
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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