Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 14
Never did he pay so much for the making of a lock as he shall pay for the breaking of it."
Who acts: fellow, lock · What happens: not pay, pay, make
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 (fellow, lock), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 pay | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 pay | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 making | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 making | det |
| 9 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lock | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lock | det |
| 12 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 pay | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pay | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 pay | aux |
| 16 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pay | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 breaking | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 breaking | det |
| 19 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pay | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 breaking | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay | past · do-support | fellow | for the making of a lock | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for making=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | shall | fellow | for the breaking of breaking | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for breaking=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | a lock | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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