Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 54

After that the maiden's grief was somewhat spent, she sent for Brutamont the jailer, and demanded of him who were these men that he had in the dungeon. "

Who acts: grief, hall · What happens: spend, send, demand, be, have · To what, where: grief, jailer, men, dungeon · 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 (grief, hall), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 sent	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grief	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spent	aux:pass
8	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	9 spent	advmod
9	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 that	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Brutamont	case
14	Brutamont	Brutamont	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jailer	det
16	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 demanded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 demanded	cc
19	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 demanded	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 men	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 men	cop
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 men	det
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 demanded	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 demanded	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 dungeon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dungeon	det
31	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		the maiden's grief			somewhat property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	send	past	grief	the jailer		after that	for Brutamont	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jailer=Theme
3	demand speech: request	past	grief not said here				of Brutamont	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		this men			who nsubj	tree rules
5	have	past	hall		the dungeon			vn birth-28.2-1 «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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 54