Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 8

But Duke Thierry was ill-content with such counsel, "We are shut in here, my lords," said he, "and our happiness must be but brief.

Who acts: Duke, ill content, happiness · What happens: be, shut, say · To what, where: ill content, We · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, ill content, happiness), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 content	cc
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 content	nsubj
3	Thierry	Thierry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Duke	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 content	cop
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 content	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct
7	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 counsel	case
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 counsel	amod
10	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 content	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shut	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 shut	punct
13	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 shut	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shut	aux:pass
15	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 content	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 here	case
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 shut	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lords	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lords	nmod:poss
20	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shut	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 content	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 content	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 he	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 he	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 be	cc
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 happiness	nmod:poss
29	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 be	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 he	conj
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 brief	cc
33	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 he	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Duke	ill content	with such counsel	tree rules
2	shut in a quote	present · passive		We	my lords obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	ill content		Duke ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	must	our happiness			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 8

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 8