Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 5
Then the King said: "They are all dead of hunger," and he commanded that a long ladder should be set against the walls.
Who acts: King, people · What happens: say, be, command, set · To what, where: long ladder, walls · 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 (King, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 dead | advmod |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hunger | case |
| 12 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 commanded | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 commanded | nsubj |
| 17 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 set | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ladder | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ladder | amod |
| 21 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 set | aux:pass |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 commanded | ccomp |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 walls | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 walls | det |
| 27 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | people | of hunger; all, dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | command | past | King | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | set | should · passive | a long ladder | the walls | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against wall=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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