Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 45
Straightway he ran to regain it, putting his shield over his head to cover himself from the enemy's blows.
Who acts: Straightway, enemy · What happens: run, regain, put, cover, blow · To what, where: frequency, shield, head, Straightway, blows
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 (Straightway, enemy), 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 | Straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 regain | mark |
| 5 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 regain | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 putting | punct |
| 8 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shield | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cover | mark |
| 15 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 putting | advcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 cover | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 blows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enemy | det |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 enemy | case |
| 21 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cover | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Straightway | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | regain | to-infinitive | Straightway not said here | frequency | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | gerund | Straightway not said here | Straightway's shield | Straightway's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shield=Theme over head=Destination | |||
| 4 | cover | to-infinitive | Straightway not said here | Straightway | the enemy's blows | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination | |||
| 5 | blow | the enemy | nom blow «act intransitive»: 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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