Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 75
After this she opened a great chest that she had in her chamber, and spread a fair cloth of silk, and on this she laid the crown of thorns and the nails with which the Lord's feet were pierced. "
Who acts: Floripas · What happens: open, have, spread, lay, pierce, crown · To what, where: great chest, chamber, fair cloth, crown, this, 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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 opened | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chest | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chest | amod |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 chamber | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spread | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spread | cc |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cloth | amod |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 silk | case |
| 21 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cloth | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 laid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 laid | cc |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 laid | obl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 laid | nsubj |
| 27 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 crown | det |
| 29 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 laid | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 thorns | case |
| 31 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 crown | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 nails | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 nails | det |
| 34 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 thorns | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 pierced | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Lord | det |
| 38 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 feet | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Lord | case |
| 40 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 pierced | aux:pass |
| 42 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 thorns | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 laid | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Floripas | a great chest | after this | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Floripas | Floripas's chamber | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | Floripas not said here | a fair cloth of silk | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | past | Floripas | the crown of thorns and the nails | this | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on this=Destination | |||
| 5 | pierce | past · passive | the Lord's feet | with thorns and the nails | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | crown | thorns and the nails | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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