Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 114
The King answered, "Maybe, Huon, I shall send you to a worse place than that to which went Hercules, for of fifteen messengers that have already gone thither there has not come back to me a single one.
Who acts: King, worse place, fifteen messengers · What happens: answer, send, go, not come back · To what, where: Huon, you, worse place, Hercules, King · 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 (King, worse place, fifteen messengers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Huon | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Huon | punct |
| 6 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 8 Huon | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Huon | punct |
| 8 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 send | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | aux |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 send | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 16 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 messengers | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 messengers | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 messengers | case |
| 27 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 messengers | nummod |
| 28 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 come | nsubj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 gone | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | aux |
| 31 | already | already | ADV | _ | 32 gone | advmod |
| 32 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 messengers | acl:relcl |
| 33 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 34 there | advmod |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 gone | advmod |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 come | advmod |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 send | parataxis |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 come | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 come | obl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 one | det |
| 42 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 one | amod |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | Huon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send in a quote | shall | the King = king | you | a worse place than that | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | a worse place than that | Hercules | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hercules=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · perfect | fifteen messengers | there; thither | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not come back in a quote | present | fifteen messengers | the King = king | a single one parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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