Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 36

So he carried the stone to its place, though it were of such a bigness that four men could scarcely handle it.

Who acts: Reynaud, stone, four men · What happens: carry, be, handle · To what, where: stone, place, that

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, stone, four men), 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	_	3 carried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 place	nmod:poss
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bigness	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 bigness	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bigness	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bigness	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 bigness	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 bigness	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bigness	det
16	bigness	bigness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 handle	obj
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 men	nummod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 handle	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 handle	aux
21	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	22 handle	advmod
22	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bigness	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 handle	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Reynaud	the stone	stone's place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to place=Destination
2	is	past	stone			of such bigness	tree rules
3	handle	could	four men	that		stone obj; scarcely 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 36