Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 55
It was a great hall finely painted and hung about with tapestries, and there the King sate at dinner in great state.
Who acts: courtesy, great hall · What happens: be, paint, hang about, sate · To what, where: great hall, dinner
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 (courtesy, great hall), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hall | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hall | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hall | amod |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | nsubj |
| 6 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 7 painted | advmod |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hung | cc |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 hung | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 tapestries | case |
| 12 | tapestries | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hung | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sate | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sate | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 sate | expl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 there | appos |
| 18 | sate | sate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 dinner | case |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sate | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 state | case |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 state | amod |
| 23 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sate | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | courtesy | a great hall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | past | a great hall | finely property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang about | past | a great hall not said here | with tapestries; about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sate | present | a great hall not said here | dinner; there | in great state | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument |
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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