Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 22
But when the steward found that everything had been sold, he came again to his master, and said, "I can get nothing in the town for your supper.
Who acts: steward · What happens: find, sell, come, say, get · To what, where: everything, master, nothing, town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 found | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 steward | det |
| 4 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sold | mark |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sold | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sold | aux:pass |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 master | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 get | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 supper | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 supper | nmod:poss |
| 32 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the steward | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sell | past · perfect · passive | everything | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | steward | steward's master | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | steward not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | can | steward | nothing | the town | for your supper | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for supper=Source |
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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