Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 74
And when he had said this, Oliver ran at Fierabras as fiercely as a lion that leaps upon its prey.
Who acts: Oliver, lion · What happens: say, run, leap · To what, where: this, Fierabras, prey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Oliver, lion), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Fierabras | case |
| 11 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fiercely | advmod |
| 13 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 lion | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 leaps | nsubj |
| 18 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lion | acl:relcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 prey | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaps | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Oliver | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Oliver | Fierabras | as a lion; fiercely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fierabras=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leap | present | a lion | lion's prey | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon prey=Trajectory |
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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