Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 51
So the Charcoal-burner went his way through the palace asking for Wymond.
Who acts: Charcoal burner, palace · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: way, palace
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charcoal burner, palace), 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 | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 burner | det |
| 3 | Charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burner | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Charcoal | punct |
| 5 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 palace | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Wymond | case |
| 14 | Wymond | Wymond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Charcoal burner | burner's way | the palace | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the palace not said here | for Wymond | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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