--- title: When she came to herself she cried aloud with a lamentable voice: "L… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: When she came to herself she cried aloud with a lamentable voice: "Lords of France, if Guy be not given back to me I will give up this Tower to my father before two days are over." Who acts: Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/7/) [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/) / [Of Guy of Burgundy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/) / 7 # Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 7 When she came to herself she cried aloud with a lamentable voice: "Lords of France, if Guy be not given back to me I will give up this Tower to my father before two days are over." **Who acts:** Roland · **What happens:** come, cry, not give back, give up, be · **To what, where:** Roland, Guy, Tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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:pg75339:23:7 # text = When she came to herself she cried aloud with a lamentable voice: "Lords of France, if Guy be not given back to me I will give up this Tower to my father before two days are over." 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lamentable lamentable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 Guy guy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 iobj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 over over ADV RB _ 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Roland | | Roland | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Roland | | | | | with a lamentable voice and Lords of France; aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | | 3 | **not** **give back** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | Guy | Roland | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient | | 4 | **give up** *in a quote* | future | Roland | | this Tower | | | to my father | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tower=Theme to father=Recipient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Roland *not said here* | | | | day | over *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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/8/) - ↑ back to [Of Guy of Burgundy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/)