Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 10
What!" answered the King, "are they already so far?
What happens: answer, be · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 far | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 far | cop |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 far | nsubj |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 far | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | What nsubj; warriors = warrior nsubj; far property | tree rules |
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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