Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 61

When the Admiral saw it he swooned, not once only but four times, so that he seemed like to a dead man.

Who acts: Admiral · What happens: see, swoon, seem, like · To what, where: body

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 (Admiral), 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 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Admiral	det
3	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swooned	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swooned	nsubj
7	swooned	swoon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 times	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 times	advmod
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 times	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 times	advmod
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 times	cc
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swooned	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 seemed	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swooned	conj
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seemed	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 like	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swooned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Admiral	body			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	swoon	past	Admiral		time		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	seem	past	Admiral				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	like	infinitive	Admiral not said here			to a dead man	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 61