Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 52
And when she came to the hall she found a great lamenting, and asking the cause she heard that her brother Fierabras had been vanquished in battle and taken prisoner.
Who acts: hearing · What happens: come, find, ask, hear, vanquish, take · To what, where: hall, great lamenting, cause, brother, battle, prisoner · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lamenting | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lamenting | amod |
| 12 | lamenting | lamenting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asking | cc |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 found | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cause | det |
| 17 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asking | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cause | acl:relcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 vanquished | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vanquished | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 brother | appos |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 vanquished | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 vanquished | aux:pass |
| 26 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 heard | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 battle | case |
| 28 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vanquished | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 taken | cc |
| 30 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 vanquished | conj |
| 31 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 taken | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hearing | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | hearing | a great lamenting | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamenting=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | hearing not said here | the cause | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | hearing | the cause not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | vanquish | past · perfect · passive | hearing's brother | battle | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | participle | prisoner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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