Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 30

But Raoul saw the stroke coming, and leapt lightly aside, so that the axe fell and hurt him not; but it cleft a stone of marble on which it lighted into two parts.

Who acts: Raoul, stroke, axe · What happens: see, come, leapt, fall, not hurt, light · To what, where: stroke, Raoul, axe, marble

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 (Raoul, stroke, axe), 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	_	3 saw	cc
2	Raoul	Raoul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stroke	det
5	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stroke	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leapt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leapt	cc
9	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	11 aside	advmod
11	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 leapt	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 fell	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 axe	det
16	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 leapt	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hurt	cc
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fell	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hurt	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 hurt	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 cleft	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 cleft	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cleft	nsubj
25	cleft	cleft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stone	det
27	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cleft	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 marble	case
29	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stone	nmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lighted	obl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lighted	nsubj:pass
33	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 marble	acl:relcl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 parts	case
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 parts	nummod
36	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lighted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Raoul	the stroke			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the stroke not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leapt	infinitive	Raoul not said here			aside property	tree rules
4	fall	past	the axe				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not hurt	past	the axe not said here	Raoul			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
6	light	participle · passive		axe	marble	into two parts	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 30

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 30