Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 50
The maiden hearing the complaints of the French knights felt a great pity for them.
Who acts: maiden hearing, French knights · What happens: feel, complain · To what, where: great pity
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 (maiden hearing, French knights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hearing | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hearing | amod |
| 3 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 complaints | det |
| 5 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knights | det |
| 8 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knights | amod |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 complaints | nmod |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pity | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pity | amod |
| 13 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pity | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the maiden hearing | a great pity | for knights = knight; the complaints of the French knights nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for they=Theme | |||
| 2 | complain | the French knights | nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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