Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 54
Then, supper being ended, they sat by the fire, and the Charcoal-burner told many merry tales.
Who acts: supper, foresters, Charcoal burner · What happens: be, sit, tell · To what, where: many merry tales · 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 (supper, foresters, Charcoal burner), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ended | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 burner | det |
| 15 | Charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burner | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Charcoal | punct |
| 17 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tales | amod |
| 20 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tales | amod |
| 21 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 told | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | supper | then | ended property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | past | foresters = forester | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Charcoal burner | many merry tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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