Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 2
As they rode across the moor a great tempest from the east fell upon them.
Who acts: feast, great tempest · What happens: ride, fall · To what, where: moor
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, great tempest), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 rode | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 moor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moor | det |
| 6 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tempest | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tempest | amod |
| 9 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 east | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 east | det |
| 12 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tempest | nmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | feast | the moor | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across moor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a great tempest from the east | upon feast | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
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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