Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 37

When Huon heard this, he knew that they were Frenchmen, and said, "Tell me now, fair sir, what has befallen you."

Who acts: Huon, words · What happens: hear, know, be, say, tell, befall · To what, where: this, Frenchmen, Huon, fair sir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, words), 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 heard	advmod
2	Huon	Huon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 Frenchmen	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Frenchmen	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Frenchmen	cop
11	Frenchmen	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Tell	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tell	punct
17	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Tell	iobj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 Tell	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sir	punct
21	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sir	amod
22	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Tell	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 befallen	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 befallen	nsubj:pass
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 befallen	aux
26	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sir	acl:relcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 befallen	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Tell	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Huon	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	know	past	Huon					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	words = word	Frenchmen				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Huon not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Huon	now	fair sir parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	befall in a quote	present · perfect · passive		fair sir			you obj	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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 37