Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 56
When the King heard him speak in this fashion he felt a great compassion for him, and bade his knights carry him to a convenient lodging.
Who acts: King, Fierabras, bade · What happens: hear, speak, feel, carry · To what, where: Fierabras, fashion, great compassion, convenient lodging · 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 (King, Fierabras, bade), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fashion | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fashion | det |
| 9 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speak | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 compassion | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 compassion | amod |
| 14 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 compassion | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carry | cc |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knights | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 lodging | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lodging | det |
| 26 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lodging | amod |
| 27 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | Fierabras | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Fierabras not said here | this fashion | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | King | a great compassion | for Fierabras | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent compassion=Location for he=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | present | bade | Fierabras | a convenient lodging | Fierabras's knights nsubj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to lodging=Destination |
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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