Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 16
The Lady Sybil thought within herself, "Dare I do this thing?
Who acts: Lady Sybil · What happens: think, do · To what, where: Dare · 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 (Lady Sybil), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sybil | det |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sybil | compound |
| 3 | Sybil | Sybil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dare | punct |
| 9 | Dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Lady Sybil | within Sybil | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the Lady Sybil = sybil | Dare | this thing obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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