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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

advmodnsubjpunctccadvmodnsubjconjcasedetobladvmodnsubjcopnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclmarkxcompdetnsubjccompcaseoblpunctccconjobjadvmodadvmodcasenmod:possoblmarknsubjadvclcompound:prtdetobjccconjpunctrootSoADVLuciferPROPNwentVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONcameVERBtoADPtheDETchamberNOUNwhereADVFloripasPROPNwasAUXhePRONdidAUXnotPARTseekVERBtoPARThaveVERBtheDETdoorNOUNopenedVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJsmoteVERBitPRONsoADVstoutlyADVwithADPhisPRONfootNOUNthatSCONJhePRONbrakeVERBdownADPtheDETboltsNOUNandCCONJbarsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 wentadvmod
2LuciferLuciferPROPNNumber=Sing3 wentnsubj
3wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_8 camepunct
5andandCCONJ_8 camecc
6whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 cameadvmod
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 camensubj
8camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
9totoADP_11 chambercase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 chamberdet
11chamberchamberNOUNNumber=Sing8 cameobl
12wherewhereADVPronType=Rel18 seekadvmod
13FloripasFloripasPROPNNumber=Sing18 seeknsubj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 seekcop
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 seeknsubj
16diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 seekaux
17notnotPARTPolarity=Neg18 seekadvmod
18seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf11 chamberacl:relcl
19totoPART_20 havemark
20havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf18 seekxcomp
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 doordet
22doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing23 openednsubj
23openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 haveccomp
24totoADP_25 himcase
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 openedobl
26,,PUNCT_28 smotepunct
27butbutCCONJ_28 smotecc
28smotesmiteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
29ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 smoteobj
30sosoADV_31 stoutlyadvmod
31stoutlystoutlyADV_28 smoteadvmod
32withwithADP_34 footcase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 footnmod:poss
34footfootNOUNNumber=Sing28 smoteobl
35thatthatSCONJ_37 brakemark
36hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 brakensubj
37brakebreakVERBVerbForm=Inf28 smoteadvcl
38downdownADP_37 brakecompound:prt
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 boltsdet
40boltsboltNOUNNumber=Plur37 brakeobj
41andandCCONJ_42 barscc
42barsbarNOUNNumber=Plur40 boltsconj
43..PUNCT_3 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastLucifervn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2comepastLuciferthe chambervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location
3not ispast · do-supportFloripasLucifer nsubj; seek propertytree rules
4have not said to happento-infinitiveFloripas not said heretree rules
5openpastthe doorLucifervn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6smitepastLucifer not said heredoorwith Lucifer's foot; stoutly propertyvn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument
7break downinfinitiveLuciferthe bolts and barsvn 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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