Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 37
And after this he fetched other stones and mortar, and these in such plenty that the masons had much ado to deal with them.
Who acts: Reynaud, masons · What happens: fetch, have, deal · To what, where: other stones, much ado
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, masons), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fetched | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fetched | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fetched | nsubj |
| 5 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stones | amod |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fetched | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mortar | cc |
| 9 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stones | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plenty | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plenty | cc |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 plenty | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 plenty | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plenty | amod |
| 15 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 masons | det |
| 18 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 plenty | advcl |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ado | amod |
| 21 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 deal | mark |
| 23 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ado | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 deal | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | Reynaud | other stones and mortar | after this | such plenty these conj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | past | the masons | much ado | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ado=Patient | ||||
| 3 | deal | to-infinitive | the masons not said here | much ado not said here | with men = man | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme |
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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