Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 58

At the last it came to this, that there was nothing left to eat but these four horses only.

Who acts: horse, nothing · What happens: come, be, leave, eat · To what, where: last

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 (horse, nothing), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 last	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 was	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 was	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 nothing	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 left	xcomp
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 horses	cc
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 horses	det
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 horses	nummod
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nothing	conj
20	only	only	ADV	_	19 horses	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	horse	the last	to this	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial_Location
2	be	past	nothing this four horses	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 58