Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 55

But when many days had gone by, and there came no messenger from the town, he began to doubt within himself.

Who acts: many days, messenger · What happens: go by, come, begin, doubt · To what, where: town

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 (many days, messenger), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 gone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 came	expl
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 messenger	det
13	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 doubt	mark
21	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	within	within	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 doubt	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go by	past · perfect	many days			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	no messenger	the town; there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location
3	begin	past	messenger			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	doubt	to-infinitive	messenger not said here		within messenger	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 55