Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 119
So sad at heart was she that she fell down at his feet like to one dead.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, fall down · To what, where: wife, feet
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 (wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 sad | advmod |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 heart | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sad | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 she | cop |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sad | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 fell | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sad | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 dead | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 dead | nummod |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall down | past | wife | Naymes's feet like one dead | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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