Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 28
When the King heard this he smote Roland his nephew in the face with his gauntlet so sharply that the blood gushed out abundantly.
Who acts: King, blood · What happens: hear, smite, gush out · To what, where: this, Roland, face
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 (King, blood), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smote | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smote | nsubj |
| 7 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gauntlet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gauntlet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gauntlet | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 sharply | advmod |
| 18 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 22 gushed | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 gushed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gushed | nsubj |
| 22 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 smote | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 gushed | compound:prt |
| 24 | abundantly | abundantly | ADV | _ | 22 gushed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smite | past | King | Roland | the face with King's gauntlet | King's nephew obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus roland=Experiencer nephew=Result | ||
| 3 | gush out | participle | the blood | abundantly, sharply property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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