Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 28
Consider also that King Charles may be willing to give up Fierabras in exchange for these knights.
Who acts: you, Charles · What happens: consider, be, give up · To what, where: Fierabras, exchange
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 (you, Charles), 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 | Consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 willing | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 willing | mark |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 willing | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 willing | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 willing | cop |
| 8 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Consider | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 willing | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 give | compound:prt |
| 12 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 give | iobj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 exchange | case |
| 14 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 knights | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 knights | det |
| 17 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 exchange | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | may | Charles King | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | to-infinitive | Charles King not said here | Fierabras | exchange for this knights | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fierabras=Source |
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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