Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 1
The Frenchmen, being now safe in the Tower, refreshed themselves with food, for they had fasted long, as has been told.
Who acts: Frenchmen · What happens: be, refresh, fast, tell · To what, where: Tower, Frenchmen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Frenchmen | det |
| 2 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 refreshed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 safe | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 safe | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 safe | advmod |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Frenchmen | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Tower | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tower | det |
| 9 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 safe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refreshed | punct |
| 11 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 refreshed | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 refreshed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fasted | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 fasted | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fasted | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fasted | aux |
| 19 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 refreshed | parataxis |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 fasted | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 told | mark |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 told | aux:pass |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fasted | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 refreshed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the Frenchmen not said here | the Tower | now | safe property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | refresh | past | the Frenchmen | Frenchmen = frenchman | with food | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | fast | past · perfect | Frenchmen = frenchman | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Frenchmen = frenchman not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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