Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 28
But they also availed nought, for the giant was clad in the skin of a serpent, that was harder than any coat of mail.
Who acts: swords, that · What happens: avail, clad, be · To what, where: nought, giant, skin
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 (swords, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 availed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 availed | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 availed | advmod |
| 4 | availed | avail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 availed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clad | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 clad | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clad | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clad | aux:pass |
| 11 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 availed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clad | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 serpent | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 serpent | det |
| 17 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 harder | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 harder | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 harder | cop |
| 21 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 clad | conj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 coat | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 coat | det |
| 24 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 harder | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mail | case |
| 26 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coat | nmod | ||
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 availed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avail | past | swords = sword | nought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clad | past · passive | the giant | the skin of a serpent | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | than any coat of mail; hard property | 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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