Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 14
He was much changed in face, being pale and wasted, seeing that he had not eaten for three days.
Who acts: Floripas · What happens: change, be, waste, see, not eat · To what, where: Floripas, face
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pale | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 pale | cop |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 changed | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wasted | cc |
| 11 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pale | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
| 13 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wasted | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 eaten | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 eaten | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 eaten | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 eaten | advmod |
| 18 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 seeing | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eaten | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | Floripas | face | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | pale property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | waste | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not eat | past · perfect | Floripas | day | 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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