Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 80
So they turned their horses' heads and journeyed back to Paris.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: turn, journey back · To what, where: heads, Paris
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 horses | case |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 journeyed | cc |
| 9 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 journeyed | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Paris | case |
| 12 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 journeyed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Roland | Roland's horses's heads | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | journey back | past | Roland not said here | Paris | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to paris=Destination |
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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