Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 51
So she went from her chamber to the hall, and twelve maidens that waited upon her followed.
Who acts: hearing, twelve maidens · What happens: go, wait, follow · To what, where: chamber
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 (hearing, twelve maidens), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 chamber | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 maidens | nummod |
| 13 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 waited | nsubj |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waited | obl |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | hearing | hearing's chamber | to the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location to hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | wait | past | twelve maidens | upon hearing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | twelve maidens | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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