Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 3

So fierce was the wind and so heavy the rain, that they were scattered over the country, nor could they tell, the day being well nigh as dark as night, whither they were going.

Who acts: wind · What happens: be, scatter, tell, go · To what, where: fierce wind, wind, country · 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 (wind), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 fierce	advmod
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wind	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rain	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 heavy	advmod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rain	amod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rain	det
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scattered	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 scattered	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scattered	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scattered	aux:pass
15	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wind	conj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 country	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 country	det
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scattered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	cc
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wind	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 day	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	conj
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 dark	cop
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 dark	advmod
29	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	31 dark	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 dark	advmod
31	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wind	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 night	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dark	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 going	punct
35	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	38 going	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 going	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 going	aux
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 dark	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fierce wind and the heavy rain and the day			the heavy rain conj	tree rules
2	scatter	past · passive		wind	the country			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over country=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	could	wind					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				night	dark, nigh, well property	tree rules
5	go	past · progressive	wind				whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 3