Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 67
This river flows as fast as a bolt flies out of a crossbow; so fierce is the current that no boat or galley can by any means cross over it.
Who acts: river, bolt, any · What happens: flow, fly out, be, mean · To what, where: crossbow, fierce current, cross, river
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 (river, bolt, any), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | nsubj |
| 3 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 flows | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 flies | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bolt | det |
| 8 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flies | nsubj |
| 9 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 crossbow | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 crossbow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crossbow | det |
| 13 | crossbow | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flies | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 current | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fierce | advmod |
| 16 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 current | amod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 current | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 current | det |
| 19 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 can | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 boat | mark |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 boat | det |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 current | appos |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 galley | cc |
| 24 | galley | galley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boat | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 flows | advcl |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 means | mark |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 means | nsubj |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flows | advcl |
| 29 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cross | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | this river | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly out | present | a bolt | a crossbow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crossbow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the fierce current | no boat or galley appos | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | any | cross | river | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Topic |
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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