Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 93
The Frenchmen were sorely dismayed at this, and began to say to each other that they must now surely quit the Tower.
Who acts: Frenchmen · What happens: dismay, begin, say, quit · To what, where: Frenchmen, this, each, Tower · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Frenchmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Frenchmen | det |
| 2 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 dismayed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismayed | aux:pass |
| 4 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 5 dismayed | advmod |
| 5 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dismayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismayed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 say | obl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 quit | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 quit | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 quit | aux |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 quit | advmod |
| 20 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 21 quit | advmod |
| 21 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tower | det |
| 23 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 quit | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dismayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismay | past · passive | the Frenchmen | this | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | quit | must | Frenchmen = frenchman | the Tower | now | surely property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Source |
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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