Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 114
He has done as well as it lay with him to do; doubtless he was asleep when your treasures were spoiled.
Who acts: treasure, Tower, your · What happens: do, lie, doubtless, be, spoil, treasure · To what, where: treasures
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 (treasure, Tower, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 3 done | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 lay | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lay | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 doubtless | punct |
| 14 | doubtless | doubtless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asleep | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asleep | cop |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 doubtless | ccomp |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoiled | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 20 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 22 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 doubtless | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | treasure | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | Tower | with treasure | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Tower not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | doubtless | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | treasure | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | spoil | past · passive | your treasures | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | treasure | your | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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