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A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/16/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How Fierabras Defied King Charles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/16/) / 22 # Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 22 "I am the more firmly resolved," said the King, "hearing what you say, that one of my knights shall meet him." **Who acts:** King, you, one · **What happens:** resolve, say, hear, meet · **To what, where:** King · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, one), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:16:22 # text = "I am the more firmly resolved," said the King, "hearing what you say, that one of my knights shall meet him." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 6 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 resolved resolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resolve** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the King *= king* | | | | firmly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | shall | one of my knights | King | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/16/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/16/23/) - ↑ back to [How Fierabras Defied King Charles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/16/)