Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 10
The King, being very angry, cried, "Away out of my sight, foolish boy; were it not for this company I would set you so fast in prison that you should not move hand or foot."
Who acts: Aymon, you, my · What happens: be, set, not move, sight · To what, where: you, prison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aymon, you, my), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 were | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 King | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 angry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Away | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Away | punct |
| 11 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 King | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sight | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Away | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 boy | punct |
| 17 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 company | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 were | obj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 company | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 company | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 company | det |
| 25 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | csubj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 set | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | aux |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 fast | advmod |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 set | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 prison | case |
| 33 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 move | obj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 move | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 move | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 move | advmod |
| 38 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 prison | acl:relcl |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 move | obj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 foot | cc |
| 41 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hand | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | for this company | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set in a quote | would | Aymon | you | prison | fast property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in prison=Destination | ||
| 5 | not move in a quote | should | you | prison | hand or foot obj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent that=Theme hand=Result | |||
| 6 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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