Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 56
This also they have added to their crimes, that they have helped to slay Fierabras your brother.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: add, help, slay, incriminate · To what, where: This, Fierabras
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 (maidens), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 added | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 added | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 added | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 added | aux |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 crimes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crimes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 added | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 helped | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 helped | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 helped | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 helped | aux |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 added | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slay | mark |
| 15 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helped | xcomp |
| 16 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 slay | obj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slay | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | This | to maidens's crimes; maidens = maiden nsubj | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to crime=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | present · perfect | maidens = maiden | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | maidens = maiden not said here | Fierabras | your brother obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | incriminate | maidens = maiden | nom crime «act transitive»: 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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