Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 79
They had come forth to search for him, and right glad were they to find him.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: come, search, be, find · To what, where: Roland, King
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 (Roland), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 search | mark |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 search | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glad | amod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | parataxis |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 they | cop |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Roland | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | Roland not said here | for King | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Roland | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Roland not said here | King | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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