Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 52
Then he struck his horse with his spurs, and Ferraunt leapt up under him.
Who acts: Garin, Ferraunt · What happens: strike, leapt up, spur · To what, where: horse
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 (Garin, Ferraunt), 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 struck | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spurs | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 struck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leapt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leapt | cc |
| 11 | Ferraunt | Ferraunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 leapt | nsubj |
| 12 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 leapt | compound:prt |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leapt | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Garin | Garin's horse | then | with Garin's spurs | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with spur=Instrument | ||
| 2 | leapt up | present | Ferraunt | under Garin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spur | Garin | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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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