Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 66
And when she came to Roland and had heard that he was Roland, son of the Duke of Milan and nephew to King Charles himself, she kneeled down at his feet.
Who acts: Floripas, name · What happens: come, hear, be, kneele down · To what, where: Roland, feet
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, name), 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 | _ | 29 kneeled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 kneeled | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Roland | case |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 Roland | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Roland | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Roland | cop |
| 13 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Roland | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Duke | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Duke | det |
| 18 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Milan | case |
| 20 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Duke | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nephew | cc |
| 22 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Duke | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Charles | case |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 nephew | nmod |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 Charles | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kneeled | nsubj |
| 29 | kneeled | kneele | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 kneeled | compound:prt |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 feet | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 feet | nmod:poss |
| 33 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 kneeled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 kneeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Floripas | Roland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to roland=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Floripas not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | name | Roland | son of the Duke of Milan and nephew to Charles King name appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | kneele down | past | Floripas | name's feet | 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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