Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 11
When he had thus spoken he lay down under a tree, and having tied his horse to one of the boughs, took off his armour.
Who acts: man · What happens: speak, lie down, tie, take off · To what, where: tree, horse, one, armour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lay | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 lay | compound:prt |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tied | cc |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tied | aux |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lay | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 tied | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 boughs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boughs | det |
| 22 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 took | compound:prt |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 armour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | man | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie down | past | man | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | tie | gerund · perfect | man not said here | man's horse | one of the boughs | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to one=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | take off | past | man not said here | man's armour | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=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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