Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 121
Now, therefore, I desire greatly to help you; nor is there anything which I would not do for your sake," speaking more boldly because the dungeon was a darksome place, and neither could she see the knight's face nor could the knight see hers.
Who acts: I, anything, Esclairmonde, dungeon, knight · What happens: desire, help, be, not do, speak, see · To what, where: you, darksome place, face, Esclairmonde · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anything, Esclairmonde, dungeon), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 desire | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 desire | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 desire | nsubj |
| 6 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 is | advcl |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 desire | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desire | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 is | cc |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 do | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anything | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 sake | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sake | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 speaking | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 speaking | punct |
| 26 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 do | advcl |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 boldly | advmod |
| 28 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 speaking | advmod |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 place | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dungeon | det |
| 31 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 place | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 place | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 place | det |
| 34 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 place | amod |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speaking | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 see | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 see | cc |
| 38 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 41 see | advmod |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 see | aux |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 see | nsubj |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 is | parataxis |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 knight | det |
| 43 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 face | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 knight | case |
| 45 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 see | obj |
| 46 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 50 see | cc |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 see | aux |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 knight | det |
| 49 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 see | nsubj |
| 50 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 see | conj |
| 51 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 see | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | now | greatly, therefore property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | be | present | anything | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | would | I | for your sake; which obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other in a quote | gerund | Esclairmonde not said here | boldly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | the dungeon | a darksome place | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | could | Esclairmonde | the knight's face | neither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | see in a quote | could | the knight | Esclairmonde | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus |
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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