Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 108
This he did for four days, but on the fifth day the horse was grown so feeble that there came no blood from him at all.
Who acts: This · What happens: do, grow, come · To what, where: horse, blood, all
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 grown | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grown | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grown | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grown | aux:pass |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 feeble | advmod |
| 18 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grown | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 came | expl |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 feeble | advcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 blood | det |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | day | Reynaud nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | grow | past · passive | the horse | day | feeble property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | no blood | all; there | from Reynaud | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme |
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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