Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 92

And when he had made all things ready, he discharged out of his engines against the walls a fire so marvellous that the very stones began to burn.

Who acts: knight, stones · What happens: make, discharge, begin, burn · To what, where: engines

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 (knight, stones), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 things	det
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ready	nsubj
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 discharged	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 discharged	nsubj
11	discharged	discharge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 engines	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 engines	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 engines	nmod:poss
15	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 discharged	obl
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 walls	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walls	det
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 engines	nmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walls	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 marvellous	advmod
22	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fire	amod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 began	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stones	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 stones	advmod
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 marvellous	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 burn	mark
29	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	knight		ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	discharge	past	knight	knight's engines against the walls and a fire		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent out engine=Source
3	begin	past	the stones			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	burn	to-infinitive	the stones not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 92