Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 81
When the prisoners saw it they put it first round Oliver, and Floripas and her chamberlain drew him up out of the water with no little labour.
Who acts: prisoners, Floripas · What happens: see, put, draw up · To what, where: rope, chamberlain, water
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 (prisoners, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prisoners | det |
| 3 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 put | advmod |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 Oliver | case |
| 11 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 14 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chamberlain | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Floripas | conj |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 drew | compound:prt |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 labour | case |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 labour | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 labour | amod |
| 28 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the prisoners | rope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put | past | prisoners = prisoner | rope | round Oliver; first property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | draw up | past | Floripas and Floripas's chamberlain | chamberlain | the water | with no little labour | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out water=Initial_Location |
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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