Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 59

Thereupon he charged at them with such fierceness that the hardiest of them turned to fly; yet they fled not so fast but that Roland killed twenty out of the thirty.

Who acts: thing, hardiest, Frenchmen, Roland · What happens: charge, turn, fly, not flee, kill · To what, where: such fierceness, twenty, thirty

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 (thing, hardiest, Frenchmen, Roland), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 charged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charged	nsubj
3	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charged	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fierceness	case
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fierceness	amod
8	fierceness	fierceness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charged	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 turned	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hardiest	det
11	hardiest	hardy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 turned	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hardiest	obl
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fierceness	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fly	mark
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 turned	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fled	punct
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 fled	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fled	nsubj
20	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 charged	parataxis
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fled	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 fast	advmod
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 fled	advmod
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 killed	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 killed	mark
26	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 killed	nsubj
27	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fled	conj
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 killed	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 thirty	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 thirty	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thirty	det
32	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 twenty	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 charged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	past	thing			at Frenchmen = frenchman; with such fierceness; thereupon property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at they=Trajectory
2	turn	past	the hardiest of Frenchmen	such fierceness not said here			tree rules
3	fly	to-infinitive	the hardiest of Frenchmen not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not flee	past	Frenchmen = frenchman			fast property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	past	Roland	twenty	the thirty		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme out thirty=Initial_Location

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 59