Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 11
After a while, his anger having now somewhat cooled, he said to Brullant, "Tell me now, was Fierabras my son vanquished by one of these knights whom I now see before me?
Who acts: anger, Admiral · What happens: have, cool, say, tell, be, vanquish · To what, where: Brullant, son, Fierabras, knights · 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 (anger, Admiral), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 anger | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 anger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 while | conj |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 anger | acl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 having | advmod |
| 9 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 10 cooled | advmod |
| 10 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 having | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Brullant | case |
| 15 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tell | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tell | punct |
| 18 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Tell | iobj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 Tell | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fierabras | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Fierabras | cop |
| 23 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tell | obl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Tell | iobj |
| 26 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Tell | ccomp |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 vanquished | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 knights | case |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 knights | det |
| 31 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 one | nmod |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 see | obj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 see | advmod |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 knights | acl:relcl |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 see | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Admiral's anger not said here | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cool | participle | Admiral's anger not said here | somewhat property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Admiral | Brullant | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brullant=Recipient | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Admiral not said here | my son | now | me iobj | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | Fierabras | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | vanquish in a quote | participle | by one of this knights | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | present | Admiral | this knights | before Admiral; now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | anger | Admiral | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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