Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 8
So the King came in; but when he saw neither man, woman, or child in the whole place he was much astonished.
Who acts: King · What happens: come in, see, be · To what, where: man, whole place
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), 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 | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 woman | punct |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 child | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 child | cc |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 child | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 astonished | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 astonished | cop |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 astonished | advmod |
| 25 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | King | neither man and woman | child in the whole place obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | King | the whole place not said here | astonished 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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