Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 11
When Floripas saw this she was very wroth, and said to Roland, "This violence is ill-pleasing to me, Sir Roland, all the more because this man that has done it should have been my husband, though I loved him not.
Who acts: Floripas, violence, man · What happens: see, be, say, please, do, not love · To what, where: this, Roland, me, husband · 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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, violence, man), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wroth | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wroth | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 wroth | advmod |
| 8 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Roland | case |
| 13 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleasing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleasing | punct |
| 16 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 violence | det |
| 17 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pleasing | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleasing | aux |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pleasing | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ill | punct |
| 21 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pleasing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Sir | punct |
| 25 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pleasing | xcomp |
| 26 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sir | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 loved | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 more | det |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 all | advmod |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 loved | mark |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 man | det |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 loved | nsubj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 done | nsubj |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 done | aux |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 man | acl:relcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 husband | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 husband | aux |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 husband | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 husband | cop |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 husband | nmod:poss |
| 42 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 done | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 loved | punct |
| 44 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 46 loved | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 loved | nsubj |
| 46 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 loved | obj |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 loved | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Floripas | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Floripas | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to roland=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | please in a quote | present · progressive | this violence | me | Sir xcomp | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | this man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | should · perfect | violence | my husband | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 7 | not love in a quote | past | this man | husband | I nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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