Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 59
But Brutamont answered, "Not so, madam; the place is foul and loathsome, and so dark that you could not see the men.
Who acts: Brutamont, place, you · What happens: answer, be, not see · To what, where: men · 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 (Brutamont, place, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Brutamont | Brutamont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 madam | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 so | punct |
| 6 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 so | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 madam | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 madam | punct |
| 9 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 foul | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 foul | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 foul | cop |
| 14 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loathsome | cc |
| 16 | loathsome | loathsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foul | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dark | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dark | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 dark | advmod |
| 20 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foul | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dark | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 men | det |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Brutamont | madam conj | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the place | foul property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | the place not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the place not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | could | you | the men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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