Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 26
The good wife, when she heard her master's voice, made all haste to the door, knowing that he was a man of a hasty temper. "
Who acts: good wife, guest · What happens: hear, make, know, be · To what, where: voice, haste, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good wife, guest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 master | case |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heard | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 haste | det |
| 15 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 haste | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knowing | punct |
| 20 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 made | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 man | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 man | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knowing | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 temper | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 temper | det |
| 28 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 temper | amod |
| 29 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the good wife | wife's master's voice | wife nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | participle | the good wife not said here | all haste | to the door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | the good wife not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | guest | a man | of a hasty temper | 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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