Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 74
And Floripas said that now she had the thing she most desired, and kissed him, not on the mouth, for that she durst not, being yet a pagan, but upon the cheek and chin.
Who acts: Floripas · What happens: say, have, desire, kiss, not be · To what, where: thing, Guy, mouth, pagan · 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), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 had | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 desired | nsubj |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 desired | advmod |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thing | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kissed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kissed | cc |
| 15 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kissed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mouth | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mouth | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mouth | det |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 that | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 kissed | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pagan | nsubj |
| 26 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 32 pagan | advmod |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 pagan | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pagan | punct |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 pagan | cop |
| 30 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 32 pagan | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pagan | det |
| 32 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 that | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cheek | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 cheek | cc |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 cheek | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cheek | det |
| 37 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 chin | cc |
| 39 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cheek | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Floripas | the cheek and chin parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Floripas | the thing | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 3 | desire | participle | Floripas | the thing not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Floripas not said here | Guy | the mouth | for that | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 5 | not is a | gerund | Floripas | a pagan | durst property | 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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