Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 124
When the Lady Clare saw him go she fell again into a swoon, and this so sore that her gentlewomen deemed that she was dead.
Who acts: Lady Clare, God, Clare, gentlewomen · What happens: see, go, fall, deem, be · To what, where: God, swoon
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 (Lady Clare, God, Clare, gentlewomen), 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 | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Clare | det |
| 3 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Clare | compound |
| 4 | Clare | Clare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 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 | root | root |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 swoon | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swoon | det |
| 13 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sore | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sore | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sore | nsubj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 sore | advmod |
| 18 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fell | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 deemed | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 gentlewomen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | gentlewomen | gentlewoman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 deemed | nsubj |
| 22 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sore | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 dead | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dead | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dead | cop |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deemed | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Lady Clare | God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | God not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Clare | again | into a swoon result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swoon=Result | |||
| 4 | deem | past | Clare's gentlewomen | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Clare | dead property | 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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