Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 1
It happened about seven days after these things that the King rode by the castle, for he would fain know how the besieged fared.
Who acts: It, King rode · What happens: happen, know, besiege, fare · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, King rode), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 seven | advmod |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 know | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rode | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | compound |
| 12 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | nsubj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 fain | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fain | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fain | aux |
| 20 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 know | advcl |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 things | acl |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 besieged | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 besieged | det |
| 24 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 besieged | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | after this things; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | infinitive | the King rode by the castle | this things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | besiege | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fare | past | 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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