Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 29
But the King stood back by the door, and would have the charcoal-burner pass in before him. "
Who acts: King · What happens: stand back, have in · To what, where: burner pass
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 (King), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pass | det |
| 14 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burner | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 charcoal | punct |
| 16 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pass | compound |
| 17 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 have | compound:prt |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand back | past | the King | by the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location | ||||
| 2 | have in | would | the King not said here | the burner pass | before King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Patient |
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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