Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 12
Then Floripas and her ladies were content, and took something to eat.
Who acts: Floripas · What happens: be, take, eat · To what, where: something
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 (Floripas), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 content | advmod |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 content | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ladies | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Floripas | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 content | cop |
| 7 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 content | acl:relcl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Floripas and Roland's ladies | then | content property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | something | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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