Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 61
Floripas was very wroth to hear such words, "Thou evil beast!" said she; "dost use such speech to me?"
Who acts: Floripas, Thou, such words · What happens: be, hear, beast, say, use · To what, where: such speech, Brutamont · 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, Thou, such words), 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 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wroth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wroth | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wroth | advmod |
| 4 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wroth | csubj |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 11 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 beast | nsubj |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beast | amod |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | appos |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | ccomp |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 dost | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 dost | punct |
| 20 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 use | reparandum |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wroth | parataxis |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 speech | amod |
| 23 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 use | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 use | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wroth | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Floripas | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | beast in a quote | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | such words | Floripas nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | use in a quote | present | such speech | Brutamont | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient |
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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