Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 42
Now Roland stood at a window whence he could see the gallows-tree set up.
Who acts: Roland, thing · What happens: stand, see, set up · To what, where: window, gallows
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 (Roland, thing), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 see | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gallows | det |
| 12 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tree | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gallows | conj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gallows | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Roland | a window | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 2 | see | could | thing | the gallows and tree | whence property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gallows=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | set up | participle | the gallows and tree not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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