Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 23
And now let me see what you have under your cloaks, for you seem to me to have some evil design."
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, see, have, seem · To what, where: me, cloaks, evil design
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 let | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 cloaks | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cloaks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seem | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 seem | nsubj |
| 15 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seem | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seem | xcomp |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 design | det |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 design | amod |
| 22 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | me not said here | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | your cloaks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seem | present | you | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | you not said here | some evil design | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient |
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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