Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 70
When the body was brought in and laid down before the King he said in a loud voice, "Tell me now who has done this deed and for what cause."
Who acts: King · What happens: bring in, lay down, say, tell, do, cause · To what, where: body, loud voice, King, deed · 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 | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 brought | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 laid | compound:prt |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 17 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tell | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tell | punct |
| 21 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Tell | iobj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 Tell | advmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 Tell | ccomp |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 deed | det |
| 28 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 done | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cause | cc |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 what | case |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 cause | nsubj |
| 32 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 done | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | past · passive | the body | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | lay down | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | a loud voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the King not said here | the King = king | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | this deed | who nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | cause in a quote | what nsubj | 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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