Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 36
Therefore they fell to fighting again, and this so fiercely that the armour of the two of them was well-nigh broken to pieces.
Who acts: jewels · What happens: fall, fight, break · To what, where: armour
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 (jewels), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 fighting | mark |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 fighting | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fiercely | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fiercely | cc |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fiercely | nsubj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fiercely | advmod |
| 11 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 broken | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 armour | det |
| 14 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 two | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 two | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 armour | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 two | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 broken | aux:pass |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 broken | advmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 well | punct |
| 23 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 24 broken | advmod |
| 24 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fiercely | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 pieces | case |
| 26 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 broken | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | jewels = jewel | fiercely, therefore property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | jewels = jewel not said here | again | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the armour of the two of jewels | to pieces result; nigh, well property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |
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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