Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 116
Reynaud was right glad to hear this thing so that he forgot his hunger.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: be, hear, forget, hunger · To what, where: thing, hunger
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 (Reynaud), 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 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glad | amod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 forgot | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgot | nsubj |
| 12 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgot | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Reynaud | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Reynaud not said here | this thing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | Reynaud | Reynaud's hunger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunger | Reynaud | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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.
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