Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 90
That," answered the King, "is a fair gift.
What happens: answer, be · To what, where: That, King, fair gift
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 answered | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 That | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gift | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gift | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gift | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gift | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gift | amod |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | That | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fair gift | 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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