Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 120
The King answered, "Let him never come back to France except he bring the Admiral's sceptre with him."
Who acts: King · What happens: answer, let, not come back, bring · To what, where: King, France, sceptre · 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), 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 | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Let | obj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Let | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Admiral | det |
| 17 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sceptre | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Admiral | case |
| 19 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not come back in a quote | present | France | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to france=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | King | the Admiral's sceptre | with sceptre | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme |
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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