Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 41
When Charlemagne saw this he was so angry that he well-nigh lost his wits. "
Who acts: Charlemagne · What happens: see, be, lose · To what, where: this, wits
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charlemagne), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 angry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 angry | advmod |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 lost | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 lost | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 13 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 14 lost | advmod |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wits | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 angry | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Charlemagne | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Charlemagne | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | Charlemagne | Charlemagne's wits | nigh, well property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Eventuality |
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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