Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 105
This thing, however, was not accomplished without much toil and trouble.
What happens: not accomplish · To what, where: thing
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: 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 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thing | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 accomplished | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 accomplished | advmod |
| 8 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 toil | case |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 toil | amod |
| 11 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accomplished | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trouble | cc |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toil | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not accomplish | past · passive | this thing | without much toil and trouble; however property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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