Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 31
There suddenly fell upon the two so thick a cloud that neither could see the other.
What happens: fall, see · To what, where: cloud
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | expl |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 8 thick | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thick | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thick | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 thick | advmod |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cloud | det |
| 10 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thick | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 see | obj |
| 12 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | there | suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | could | a cloud | neither 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.
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