Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 46
But this did not avail him, for Fierabras smote twice on the shield, and so mightily that he brake it into pieces, and the breastplate under it also.
Who acts: this, Fierabras, Straightway · What happens: not avail, smite, break · To what, where: Straightway, shield, pieces
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 (this, Fierabras, Straightway), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 avail | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 avail | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 avail | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 avail | advmod |
| 5 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 avail | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smote | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 smote | mark |
| 9 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | nsubj |
| 10 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 avail | parataxis |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 smote | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shield | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shield | det |
| 14 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mightily | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mightily | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 mightily | advmod |
| 18 | mightily | mightily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smote | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 brake | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brake | nsubj |
| 21 | brake | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mightily | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brake | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brake | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 breastplate | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 breastplate | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 breastplate | det |
| 28 | breastplate | breastplate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 avail | conj |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 breastplate | nmod |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 breastplate | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 avail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not avail | past · do-support | this | Straightway | the breastplate under shield conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Fierabras | on the shield; twice property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on shield=Patient | ||||
| 3 | break | infinitive | Straightway | shield | into pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into 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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