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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 101

But Floripas was prudent and said, "Rest awhile, my friends, for it will need much counsel before it can be seen what you had best do."

Who acts: Floripas, friend, you · What happens: be, say, need, see, have · To what, where: Rest, much counsel, friend, best do · 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 His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, friend, 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

ccnsubjcopccconjpunctpunctobladvmodpunctnmod:possconjpunctmarknsubjauxccompamodobjmarknsubj:passauxaux:passadvclobjnsubjacl:relclamodobjpunctpunctrootButCCONJFloripasPROPNwasAUXprudentADJandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTRestPROPNawhileADV,PUNCTmyPRONfriendsNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJitPRONwillAUXneedVERBmuchADJcounselNOUNbeforeSCONJitPRONcanAUXbeAUXseenVERBwhatPRONyouPRONhadVERBbestADJdoNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_4 prudentcc
2FloripasFloripasPROPNNumber=Sing4 prudentnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 prudentcop
4prudentprudentADJDegree=Posrootroot
5andandCCONJ_6 saidcc
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 prudentconj
7,,PUNCT_6 saidpunct
8""PUNCT_9 Restpunct
9RestRestPROPNNumber=Sing6 saidobl
10awhileawhileADV_6 saidadvmod
11,,PUNCT_13 friendspunct
12mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 friendsnmod:poss
13friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur6 saidconj
14,,PUNCT_18 needpunct
15forforSCONJ_18 needmark
16ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 neednsubj
17willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin18 needaux
18needneedVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidccomp
19muchmuchADJDegree=Pos20 counselamod
20counselcounselNOUNNumber=Sing18 needobj
21beforebeforeSCONJ_25 seenmark
22ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 seennsubj:pass
23cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin25 seenaux
24bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf25 seenaux:pass
25seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 needadvcl
26whatwhatPRONPronType=Int25 seenobj
27youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs28 hadnsubj
28hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 whatacl:relcl
29bestgoodADJDegree=Sup30 doamod
30dodoNOUNNumber=Sing28 hadobj
31..PUNCT_4 prudentpunct
32""PUNCT_4 prudentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastFloripasprudent propertytree rules
2say speech: assertpastFloripas not said hereRestmy friends conj; awhile propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3need in a quotefuturefriendmuch counselvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot counsel=Theme
4see in a quotecan · passivefriendwhat objtree rules
5have in a quotepastyoubest dovn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=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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