Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 29
From the helmet it glanced down and grievously wounded the Christian's horse.
Who acts: helmet · What happens: glance down, wound · To what, where: horse
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helmet), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 helmet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 helmet | det |
| 3 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glanced | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glanced | nsubj |
| 5 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 glanced | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wounded | cc |
| 8 | grievously | grievously | ADV | _ | 9 wounded | advmod |
| 9 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glanced | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Christian | det |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Christian | case |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wounded | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance down | past | helmet | from the helmet; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wound | past | helmet not said here | the Christian's horse | grievously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer |
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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