Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 46

So they armed themselves, and went forth, bold as lions and fierce as hungry wolves, and the time of going forth was the hour that is between day and night.

Who acts: sparks, time, that · What happens: arm, go, be · To what, where: sparks, hour

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 (sparks, time, that), 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 armed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 armed	nsubj
3	armed	arm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 armed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 armed	conj
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bold	punct
10	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 lions	case
12	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bold	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fierce	cc
14	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bold	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 wolves	case
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wolves	amod
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fierce	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hour	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hour	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hour	nsubj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
23	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 time	acl
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hour	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 armed	obl:unmarked
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 day	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 day	cop
30	between	between	ADP	_	31 day	case
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hour	obl:unmarked
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 night	cc
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 armed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arm	past	sparks = spark	sparks = spark			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
2	go	past	sparks = spark not said here			bold, forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	gerund	the time not said here			forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	the time	the hour			tree rules
5	is	present	that		between day and night		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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 46