Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 83
Having so rescued them, she took them by a secret way into her own lodging, which was a very fair and spacious abode, marvellously adorned with all manner of paintings, as of the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, with woods and mountains and living creatures of all kinds, made, as some will have it, by the son of Methuselah.
Who acts: Having, Floripas, own lodging, some · What happens: have, rescue, take, be, adorn, make · To what, where: others, own lodging, fair abode, heaven
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 (Having, Floripas, own lodging, some), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rescued | csubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | rescued | rescue | 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 rescued | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rescued | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 lodging | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lodging | amod |
| 16 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 abode | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 abode | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 abode | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 abode | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 fair | advmod |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 abode | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spacious | cc |
| 24 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fair | conj |
| 25 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lodging | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 adorned | punct |
| 27 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 28 adorned | advmod |
| 28 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 abode | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 manner | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 manner | det |
| 31 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 adorned | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 paintings | case |
| 33 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 manner | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sun | punct |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 38 sun | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 as | fixed |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sun | det |
| 38 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 adorned | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 moon | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 moon | det |
| 41 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sun | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 host | cc |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 host | det:predet |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 host | det |
| 45 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sun | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 heaven | case |
| 47 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 host | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 woods | punct |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 woods | case |
| 50 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 adorned | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 mountains | cc |
| 52 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 woods | conj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 creatures | cc |
| 54 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 creatures | amod |
| 55 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 woods | conj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 kinds | case |
| 57 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 58 kinds | det |
| 58 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 creatures | nmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 made | punct |
| 60 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 adorned | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 have | punct |
| 62 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 65 have | mark |
| 63 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 65 have | nsubj |
| 64 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 have | aux |
| 65 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | parataxis |
| 66 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 have | obj |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 son | punct |
| 68 | by | by | ADP | _ | 70 son | case |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 son | det |
| 70 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 have | conj |
| 71 | of | of | ADP | _ | 72 Methuselah | case |
| 72 | Methuselah | Methuselah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 son | nmod |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rescued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | rescue | past | Having | others = other | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Floripas | others = other | Floripas's own lodging | by a secret way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into lodging=Destination | ||
| 4 | is a | past | Floripas's own lodging | a fair abode | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | adorn | participle | Floripas's own lodging not said here | with all manner of paintings; as the sun and the moon and all host of heaven; with woods and mountains and living creatures of all kinds; marvellously property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with manner=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | participle | Floripas's own lodging not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 7 | have | future | some | heaven | the son of Methuselah conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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