Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 46
It flew a whole spear's length, so great was the stroke.
Who acts: shore · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: length, great stroke
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 (shore), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spear | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spear | amod |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 length | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 spear | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 great | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stroke | amod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stroke | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stroke | det |
| 13 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | shore | a whole spear's length | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | shore not said here | the great stroke | tree rules |
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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