Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 96
Then she went and took certain herbs, and mixed them in wine, and the knights threw the wine on the fire, and it was quenched immediately.
Who acts: anger, knights · What happens: go, take, mix, throw, quench · To what, where: certain herbs, herbs, wine, fire
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 (anger, knights), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 herbs | amod |
| 7 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mixed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mixed | cc |
| 10 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mixed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wine | case |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mixed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 threw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knights | det |
| 17 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 threw | nsubj |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wine | det |
| 20 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 quenched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 quenched | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 quenched | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 quenched | aux:pass |
| 28 | quenched | quench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 28 quenched | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | anger | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | anger not said here | certain herbs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mix | past | anger not said here | herbs = herb | wine | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | throw | past | the knights | the wine | the fire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wine=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 5 | quench | past · passive | fire | immediately property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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