Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 24
When he had so spoken he laid hold of one of the four, and turned him about four times.
Who acts: Gallafer · What happens: speak, lay, hold, turn · To what, where: Gallafer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gallafer), 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 | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 laid | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laid | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hold | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 four | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 four | det |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 four | advmod |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Gallafer | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | Gallafer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | Gallafer not said here | of one of the four | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | Gallafer not said here | Gallafer | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=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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