Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 64
Then Floripas bade them light a torch and open the door of the prison.
Who acts: Floripas · What happens: bade, light, open · To what, where: advancement, torch, door
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 (Floripas), 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 bade | advmod |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 torch | det |
| 7 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 open | cc |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 light | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prison | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prison | det |
| 14 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Floripas | advancement | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | light | infinitive | Floripas not said here | a torch | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Product | ||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | Floripas not said here | the door of the prison | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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