Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 97

The King commanded that all the engines of war should be broken, for he feared lest others also of the Barons should throw victuals into the castle.

Who acts: King · What happens: command, break, fear, throw · To what, where: engines, victuals, castle · 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 broken	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 engines	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 engines	det
7	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 broken	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 war	case
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 engines	nmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 broken	aux:pass
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commanded	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feared	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 feared	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feared	nsubj
16	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	conj
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	18 others	case
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feared	obl
19	also	also	ADV	_	24 throw	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Barons	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Barons	det
22	Barons	Baron	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 throw	obl
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 throw	aux
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 feared	advcl
25	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 throw	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castle	det
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	command	past	the King				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	should · passive		all engines of war			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	fear	past	King			lest others	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	throw	should	King not said here	victuals	the castle	of the Barons	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent victual=Theme of baron=Initial_Location into castle=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 97