Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 32
Thereupon the Duke took the coal, and blew it so strongly that the flame came near to the pagan's face, and burnt his beard.
Who acts: Duke, flame · What happens: take, blow, come, burnt · To what, where: coal, face, beard
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 (Duke, flame), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coal | det |
| 6 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blew | cc |
| 9 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 blew | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 strongly | advmod |
| 12 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 9 blew | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flame | det |
| 15 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 blew | advcl |
| 17 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pagan | det |
| 20 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 pagan | case |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 burnt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burnt | cc |
| 25 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 beard | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burnt | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Duke | the coal | thereupon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | |||
| 2 | blow | past | the Duke not said here | coal | strongly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | the flame | the pagan's face | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to face=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | burnt | past | the Duke not said here | Duke's beard | 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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