Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 85
When the King heard what the Duke Aymon had done he was very angry, and sent for him to his tent.
Who acts: King, Duke Aymon, Aymon · What happens: hear, do, be, send · To what, where: tent · 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 (King, Duke Aymon, Aymon), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 done | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Aymon | det |
| 7 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Aymon | compound |
| 8 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 angry | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 angry | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 done | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tent | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tent | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | the Duke Aymon | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Aymon | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | past | the King not said here | Aymon's tent | for Aymon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tent=Destination |
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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