Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 56

But Floripas, saying they did ill to dispute among themselves, took them into her lodgings, and shut to the door.

Who acts: Floripas, men · What happens: say, do, dispute, take · To what, where: men, lodgings · 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 (Floripas, men), 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	_	2 Floripas	cc
2	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Floripas	acl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	ccomp
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 did	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dispute	mark
9	dispute	dispute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ill	advcl
10	among	among	ADP	_	11 themselves	case
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 dispute	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Floripas	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 lodgings	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lodgings	nmod:poss
17	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shut	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shut	cc
20	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 took	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Floripas not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	men = man			ill property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dispute	to-infinitive	men = man not said here			among men = man	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	Floripas	men = man	Floripas's lodgings		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into lodging=Destination

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 56