Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 54

Then said Esclairmonde to her father, "Sir, it was told you that the French knight, Huon by name, whom you cast into prison, was dead of hunger.

Who acts: Esclairmonde, father · What happens: say, tell, cast, be · To what, where: father, land, prison · 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 (Esclairmonde, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Esclairmonde	Esclairmonde	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Sir	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Sir	punct
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 knight	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knight	det
17	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knight	amod
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Huon	punct
20	Huon	Huon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 knight	appos
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 name	case
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Huon	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whom	punct
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Int	18 knight	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 cast	nsubj
26	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 whom	acl:relcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 prison	case
28	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cast	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dead	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dead	cop
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 hunger	case
33	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dead	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Esclairmonde		Angolafer's father		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · passive		land	Angolafer's father = father			the French knight ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
3	cast in a quote	present	Angolafer's father = father			prison			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into prison=Product
4	is in a quote	past						of hunger; dead property	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 54