Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 102
You give good counsel," said Reynaud; and to this the other two agreed.
Who acts: You, Reynaud, other two · What happens: give, say, agree · To what, where: good counsel · 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 (You, Reynaud, other two), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 counsel | amod |
| 4 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 8 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 agreed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 agreed | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 and | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 two | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 two | amod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 agreed | nsubj |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 give | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | You | good counsel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Reynaud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree in a quote | participle | the other two | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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