Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 112
And Huon answered, "Sire, there is nothing in the whole world that I would not do at your bidding, if I might thereby be restored to your grace.
Who acts: Huon, nothing, your · What happens: answer, be, not do, restore, bid · To what, where: Sire, bidding, Huon, grace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, nothing, your), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 6 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sire | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 is | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 do | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 bidding | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 restored | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 restored | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 restored | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 restored | aux |
| 27 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 29 restored | advmod |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 restored | aux:pass |
| 29 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 answered | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 grace | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grace | nmod:poss |
| 32 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 restored | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Huon | Sire | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | nothing in the whole world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | would | Huon | your bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | restore a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | might · passive | Huon | your grace | thereby property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to grace=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bid in a quote | your | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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