Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 50
Then they brought him Ferraunt his horse, ready saddled and bridled.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: bring, saddle, bridle · To what, where: Garin
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 (Oliver), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | Ferraunt | Ferraunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brought | conj |
| 10 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bridled | cc |
| 12 | bridled | bridle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saddled | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Oliver | Garin | then | Ferraunt obj; Garin's horse obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | saddle | participle | Oliver not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bridle | participle | Oliver not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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