Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 67
This he crossed in a boat, and having passed through a pine forest that was on the other side of the river, came to a well whereby there was a little house with a spring before the door, in which a hermit might conveniently dwell.
Who acts: This, pine forest, hermit · What happens: cross, pass, be, come, dwell · To what, where: boat, pine forest, other side, door
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: who acts (This, pine forest, hermit), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | aux |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 crossed | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | compound |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 side | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 side | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 house | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 whereby | advmod |
| 29 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 was | advmod |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 was | expl |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 house | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 house | amod |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 spring | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 spring | det |
| 37 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 house | nmod |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 door | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 door | det |
| 40 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 dwell | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 which | case |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 dwell | obl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 hermit | det |
| 45 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 dwell | nsubj |
| 46 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 dwell | aux |
| 47 | conveniently | conveniently | ADV | _ | 48 dwell | advmod |
| 48 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | This | a boat | Reynaud nsubj | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | gerund · perfect | This not said here | a pine forest | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a pine forest | the other side | of the river | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | the door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before door=Location | |||||
| 5 | is | past | spring | to a little house | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | dwell | might | a hermit | which obl; conveniently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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