Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 33
In the morning the King sent for Fierabras and said to him, "Dear friend, now that you have been baptized, I love you better than before.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, say, baptize, love · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Fierabras | case |
| 8 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 15 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 friend | amod |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 baptized | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 baptized | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 baptized | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 baptized | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 baptized | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 baptized | aux:pass |
| 23 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 love | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 love | nsubj |
| 26 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 love | obj |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 love | xcomp |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 before | case |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 better | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | morning | for Fierabras | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King not said here | King | Dear friend ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | baptize in a quote | present · perfect · passive | King | now | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | the King = king | King | good property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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