Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 56
Then Reynaud went to the stables, and choosing one of the horses, commanded that it should be killed and dressed for food, and this was done, but it was a little thing among so many.
Who acts: Reynaud, horse · What happens: go, choose, command, kill, dress, do · To what, where: stables, one, horse, this, little thing · 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 (Reynaud, horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stables | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stables | det |
| 6 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 choosing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 choosing | cc |
| 9 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 choosing | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horses | det |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commanded | punct |
| 15 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 killed | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 killed | aux:pass |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 commanded | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dressed | cc |
| 22 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 killed | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 food | case |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dressed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 done | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 done | cc |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 done | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux:pass |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thing | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 thing | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 thing | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 thing | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 thing | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 thing | amod |
| 36 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | obj |
| 37 | among | among | ADP | _ | 39 many | case |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 many | advmod |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 done | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Reynaud | the stables | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | choose | gerund | Reynaud not said here | one of the horses | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | past | Reynaud not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill | should · passive | horse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dress | participle | for food | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | past · passive | this | among many | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | horse | a little thing | 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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