Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 33
Then Brutamont thrust these French knights into the prison, which was a dungeon so deep that no light could enter it.
Who acts: prison, light · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: dungeon, prison, Brutamont thrust
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prison, light), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thrust | advmod |
| 2 | Brutamont | Brutamont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thrust | compound |
| 3 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 knights | det |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knights | amod |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thrust | appos |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 prison | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prison | det |
| 9 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knights | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dungeon | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dungeon | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dungeon | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dungeon | det |
| 14 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prison | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 deep | advmod |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dungeon | amod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 enter | mark |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 light | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 enter | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 enter | aux |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 deep | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 enter | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the prison and a dungeon | a dungeon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | could | no light | prison | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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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