Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 57
And when the men of France saw of how great stature and beauty he was, they marvelled much, for indeed, when he was without his armour, there was no fairer man to be seen in all the world.
Who acts: men, bade · What happens: see, marvell, be · To what, where: world
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 (men, bade), 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 | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 France | case |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 men | nmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stature | case |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stature | amod |
| 11 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beauty | cc |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stature | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stature | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 marvelled | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 marvelled | nsubj |
| 18 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 marvelled | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 indeed | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 indeed | case |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 marvelled | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 armour | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 armour | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 armour | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 armour | cop |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 armour | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 armour | nmod:poss |
| 29 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marvelled | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 armour | acl:relcl |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 man | det |
| 34 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 was | nsubj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 seen | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 seen | aux:pass |
| 38 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 man | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 world | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 world | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 world | det |
| 42 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seen | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the men of France | of great stature and beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | marvell | past | men = man | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bade | without bade's armour | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | bade not said here | all world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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