Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 89

While he looked, lo! a white hart came to the river-side, and the river, which before had been so much below the bank as a man may conveniently cast a stone, began to rise, and so continued till it came to the very top of the bank and even overflowed it.

Who acts: stream, white hart, river, hart · What happens: look, come, be, cast, begin, rise · To what, where: river side, bank, stone, top, hart

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 (stream, white hart, river, hart), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 looked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
5	lo	lo	INTJ	_	10 came	discourse
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 lo	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hart	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hart	amod
9	hart	hart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 river	punct
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cast	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cast	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cast	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bank	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 bank	nsubj
22	before	before	ADV	_	29 bank	advmod
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bank	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 bank	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	29 bank	advmod
27	below	below	ADP	_	29 bank	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bank	det
29	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 river	appos
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 man	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bank	nmod
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 cast	aux
34	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	_	35 cast	advmod
35	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stone	det
37	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cast	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 rise	mark
41	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 continued	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 continued	cc
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 continued	advmod
45	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 came	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 continued	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 top	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 top	det
51	very	very	ADV	_	52 top	advmod
52	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 came	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 bank	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 bank	det
55	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 top	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 overflowed	cc
57	even	even	ADV	_	58 overflowed	advmod
58	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 came	conj
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 overflowed	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	stream				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	past	a white hart		the river side		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location
3	is	past · perfect	the river		the bank	as a man; before property	tree rules
4	cast	may	the river	a stone		conveniently property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Product
5	begin	past	a white hart not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	rise	to-infinitive	a white hart not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	continue	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	past	hart		the top of the bank		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location
9	overflow	past	hart not said here	hart			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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 89