Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 9

Roland wondered much what the King might mean, for it seemed a strange thing that on the very day of Yuletide, when a man should rest, he should be sent on such an errand.

Who acts: Roland, King, it, strange thing · What happens: wonder, mean, seem, rest, send · To what, where: strange thing, Roland, errand

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 (Roland, King, it, strange thing), 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	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 wondered	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 seemed	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 rest	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 day	advmod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rest	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Yuletide	case
22	Yuletide	Yuletide	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 day	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rest	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 rest	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rest	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 rest	aux
28	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thing	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sent	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sent	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sent	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sent	aux:pass
33	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 errand	case
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 errand	det:predet
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 errand	det
37	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sent	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Roland				what obj	tree rules
2	mean	might	the King					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it	a strange thing				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute
4	rest	should	a strange thing			day	a man nsubj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	should · passive		Roland	such errand			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 9