Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 53
So the dame handed the cup, and the two drank to each other.
Who acts: dame, two · What happens: hand, drink · To what, where: cup
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 (dame, two), 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 | _ | 4 handed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dame | det |
| 3 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | nsubj |
| 4 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drank | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drank | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 drank | nsubj |
| 11 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 handed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 drank | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | the dame | the cup | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | the two | to each | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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