Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 5
It happened on a certain day that this man came riding furiously to the camp where King Charles lay with his army, and asked that some one should come forth and fight with him.
Who acts: It, man, Charles, one · What happens: happen, come, ride, lie, ask, fight · To what, where: camp · 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 (It, man, Charles, one), 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 | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 11 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 12 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 11 riding | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 camp | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 camp | det |
| 15 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 riding | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | advmod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 camp | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 army | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 army | nmod:poss |
| 22 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 asked | ccomp |
| 31 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fight | cc |
| 33 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fight | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | this man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | this man not said here | the camp | furiously property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to camp=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | lie | past | Charles King | with man's army | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | come | should | some one | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fight | infinitive | some one not said here | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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