Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 24
When the King saw him coming, he grew so mad with rage that he was ready to fight with him, man to man.
Who acts: King, Alard · What happens: see, come, grow, be, fight · To what, where: Alard, man
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 (King, Alard), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 mad | advmod |
| 11 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rage | case |
| 13 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mad | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ready | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mad | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fight | mark |
| 19 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fight | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fight | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | Alard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Alard not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | King | mad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | King | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | King not said here | man to man | with King | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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