Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 52
As they went, the Duke Naymes said, "Who ever saw so fair a woman as this?
Who acts: knights, Duke Naymes · What happens: go, say, see · To what, where: fair woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, Duke Naymes), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Naymes | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Naymes | compound |
| 7 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 saw | advmod |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 saw | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | knights = knight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Duke Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | a fair woman | ever | as this; Who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus as this=Attribute |
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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