Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 53

Some would have taken Duke Richard's horse, but the beast would not suffer them to come near him but galloped as fast as he could to the place from which he had come.

Who acts: beast · What happens: take, not suffer, come, gallop · To what, where: Some, horses, place

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 (beast), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Richard	compound
6	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Richard	case
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 suffer	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 suffer	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beast	det
12	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suffer	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 suffer	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 suffer	advmod
15	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 suffer	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 suffer	advcl
19	near	near	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 galloped	cc
22	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 fast	advmod
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 galloped	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fast	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 galloped	obl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 come	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 place	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	would · perfect · passive		Some		Duke Richard's horse obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme horse=Destination
2	not suffer	would	the beast	horses = horse			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	come	to-infinitive	the beast not said here			near beast	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location
4	gallop	past			the place	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
5	come	past · perfect	beast		the place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location

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 Richard of Normandy, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 53