Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 3
It is true," answered the Admiral, "I will not hide the thing from you.
Who acts: Fierabras, I · What happens: be, answer, not hide · To what, where: Admiral, thing · 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 (Fierabras, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Admiral | det |
| 8 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hide | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hide | advmod |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hide | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fierabras | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the Admiral | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent admiral=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not hide | future | I | the thing | from you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Patient from you=Beneficiary |
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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