Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 71
When Floripas heard him she changed colour, being very angry, and said, "If this be so, then I swear by Mahomet that all these knights shall be hanged on a gibbet."
Who acts: Floripas, this, I · What happens: hear, change, be, say, swear, hange · To what, where: Guy, colour, knights, gibbet · 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, this, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 angry | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 angry | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 angry | advmod |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 changed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 so | punct |
| 17 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | mark |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 so | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 so | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 swear | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 swear | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 swear | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 swear | nsubj |
| 24 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Mahomet | case |
| 26 | Mahomet | mahomet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 swear | obl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 hanged | mark |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 knights | det:predet |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 knights | det |
| 30 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 hanged | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 hanged | aux:pass |
| 33 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 swear | advcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 gibbet | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 gibbet | det |
| 36 | gibbet | gibbet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hanged | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Floripas | Guy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | change | past | Floripas | colour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | Floripas not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | this | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | swear in a quote | present | I | then | by Mahomet | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | hange in a quote | shall · passive | all knights | a gibbet | tree rules |
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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