Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 42
Then Reynaud found a lodging in the town, and bought for himself one pennyworth of bread, and of this and some water he made his supper.
Who acts: Reynaud, water · What happens: find, buy, make · To what, where: lodging, town, one pennyworth, supper
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, water), 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 | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lodging | det |
| 5 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bought | cc |
| 11 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 bought | obl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pennyworth | nummod |
| 15 | pennyworth | pennyworth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bought | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bread | case |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pennyworth | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 this | case |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 made | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | nsubj |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 supper | nmod:poss |
| 28 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Reynaud | a lodging | the town | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic | ||
| 2 | buy | participle | Reynaud not said here | one pennyworth of bread | for Reynaud | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pennyworth=Theme for himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | make | past | some water | Reynaud's supper | of this; Reynaud nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product |
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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