Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 18

But when he neither sees you nor hears any tidings of you, he will fall into a great rage, and will smite off the heads of the hostages.

Who acts: spake · What happens: see, hear, fall, smite off · To what, where: you, tidings, great rage, heads

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spake), 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	_	16 fall	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 sees	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sees	nsubj
4	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sees	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 hears	cc
8	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 tidings	det
10	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hears	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tidings	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fall	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 rage	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rage	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rage	amod
20	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 smite	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smite	cc
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 smite	aux
24	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fall	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 smite	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heads	det
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smite	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hostages	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hostages	det
30	hostages	hostage	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heads	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	spake = speak	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	hear	present	spake = speak not said here	any tidings of you		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus
3	fall	future	spake = speak		into a great rage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result
4	smite off	future	spake = speak not said here	the heads of the hostages		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer

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, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 18