Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 77
Oliver rode forth and came to the tree where Fierabras lay at ease and unarmed.
Who acts: Oliver, Fierabras · What happens: ride, come, lay · To what, where: tree, ease
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, Fierabras), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lay | advmod |
| 10 | Fierabras | fierabra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 ease | case |
| 13 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unarmed | cc |
| 15 | unarmed | unarmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ease | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Oliver | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Oliver not said here | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | Fierabras | ease | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at ease=Destination |
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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