Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 10
So Lucifer went, and when he came to the chamber where Floripas was he did not seek to have the door opened to him, but smote it so stoutly with his foot that he brake down the bolts and bars.
Who acts: Lucifer, Floripas, door · What happens: go, come, not be, have, open, smite · To what, where: chamber, Lucifer, door, bolts
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucifer, Floripas, door), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 seek | advmod |
| 13 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | cop |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seek | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 seek | advmod |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seek | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | nsubj |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 opened | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 smote | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 smote | cc |
| 28 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 smote | obj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 stoutly | advmod |
| 31 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 28 smote | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 foot | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 foot | nmod:poss |
| 34 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 smote | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 brake | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 brake | nsubj |
| 37 | brake | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 smote | advcl |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 brake | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bolts | det |
| 40 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 brake | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bars | cc |
| 42 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bolts | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lucifer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Lucifer | the chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not is | past · do-support | Floripas | Lucifer nsubj; seek property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Floripas not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | open | past | the door | Lucifer | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | smite | past | Lucifer not said here | door | with Lucifer's foot; stoutly property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 7 | break down | infinitive | Lucifer | the bolts and bars | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=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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