Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 58
Then said Floripas, "Open now the dungeon, for I would fain know how they fare."
Who acts: Floripas, maidens · What happens: say, fain, know, fare · To what, where: dungeon · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Open | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Open | punct |
| 6 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 dungeon | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dungeon | det |
| 9 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fain | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 fain | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fain | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fain | aux |
| 14 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fain | xcomp |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 fare | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fare | nsubj |
| 18 | fare | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fain | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Floripas | the dungeon | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | fain in a quote | would | Floripas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | Floripas not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fare in a quote | present | maidens = maiden | 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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