Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 125
So having gone along the secret way for a while, they came to the end, and having issued forth found that they were in the Wood of the Serpent.
Who acts: thoughts, having · What happens: go, come, have, issue, find, be · To what, where: secret way, end, Wood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thoughts, having), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gone | advmod |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 found | csubj |
| 20 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 having | xcomp |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 issued | advmod |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 Wood | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 Wood | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Wood | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Wood | det |
| 28 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Serpent | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Serpent | det |
| 31 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Wood | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund · perfect | the secret way | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along way=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | thoughts = thought | to the end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | issue | participle | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | past | having | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | thoughts = thought | the Wood | of the Serpent | 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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