Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 28
When they told him it was the army of King Charles, he said, "I would fain speak with the King."
Who acts: things, army, Ogier · What happens: tell, be, say, fain, speak · To what, where: Ogier, army · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, army, Ogier), 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 | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 army | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 army | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Charles | case |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 army | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 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 | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fain | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fain | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fain | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fain | aux |
| 19 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fain | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 speak | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 fain | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | things = thing | Ogier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | army | the army | of Charles King | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ogier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fain in a quote | would | Ogier | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | Ogier not said here | with the King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=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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