Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 49
And the King that had escaped answered, "It has gone very ill with us; we encountered seven Knights of France, who said they were King Charles's men.
Who acts: King, seven, we, knights · What happens: escape, answer, go, encounter, say, be · To what, where: King, seven Knights, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, seven, we, knights), 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 | _ | 7 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escaped | aux |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 King | acl:relcl |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 ill | advmod |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gone | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ill | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 encountered | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 encountered | nsubj |
| 19 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Knights | nummod |
| 21 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 encountered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 France | case |
| 23 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Knights | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 encountered | conj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 men | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 men | cop |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 men | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Charles | case |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 said | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past · perfect · passive | the King | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | participle | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · perfect | seven | ill property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | encounter in a quote | past | we | seven Knights of France | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | knights = knight | Charles King's men | Charles King nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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