Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 49

So fair was she, that if a man had fasted for three days or four and should then look upon her, he should be as well satisfied as with abundance of meat and drink.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, fast, look · To what, where: Floripas

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 (man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 fair	advmod
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 she	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fair	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fasted	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fasted	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 fasted	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fasted	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fasted	aux
11	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fair	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fasted	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 four	cc
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 look	aux
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 look	advmod
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fasted	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 satisfied	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 satisfied	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 satisfied	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 satisfied	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	29 satisfied	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 satisfied	advmod
29	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fair	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 abundance	case
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 abundance	case
32	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 satisfied	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 meat	case
34	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 abundance	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 drink	cc
36	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 meat	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Floripas			tree rules
2	fast	past · perfect	a man		day		tree rules
3	look	should	a man not said here		then	upon Floripas	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme
4	is	should	man			as abundance of meat and drink; satisfied, well property	tree rules

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 49