Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 62
And she called her chamberlain and bade him fetch her a staff.
Who acts: Floripas, chamberlain · What happens: call, fetch · To what, where: staff, Floripas · 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, chamberlain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bade | cc |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chamberlain | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bade | obj |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fetch | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 staff | det |
| 12 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Floripas | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | Floripas's chamberlain and bade man | a staff | Floripas | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary staff=Theme |
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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