Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 101
When the King heard this he fell into a swoon for the space of an hour.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, fall · To what, where: this, swoon
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 swoon | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 swoon | det |
| 10 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 space | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 space | det |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swoon | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hour | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hour | det |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 space | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | King | into a swoon for the space of a hour result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swoon=Result |
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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