Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 66
When the King heard it he said, "Now were this false knight my own son Charlot, whom I love with all my heart, I should not deny that he had met with his deserts."
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, say, be, love, not deny, meet · To what, where: story, false knight · 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knight | punct |
| 10 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 knight | advmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knight | cop |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 knight | det |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knight | amod |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knight | nmod |
| 18 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 love | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 love | nsubj |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 knight | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 heart | det:predet |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 deny | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 deny | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 deny | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 deny | advmod |
| 31 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 love | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 met | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 met | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 met | aux |
| 35 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 deny | ccomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 deserts | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 deserts | nmod:poss |
| 38 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 met | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 knight | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | this false knight | now | my own son nmod | tree rules | |||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | King | this false knight | with my heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not deny in a quote | should | King | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | meet in a quote | past · perfect | King | with King's deserts | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with desert=Co-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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