Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 34
Thereupon Richard let fall the drawbridge, and the five hundred sought to pass over it.
Who acts: Richard · What happens: let, fall, seek, pass · To what, where: drawbridge, five hundred
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 (Richard), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drawbridge | det |
| 6 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sought | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hundred | det |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pass | mark |
| 14 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sought | xcomp |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pass | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Richard | thereupon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | Richard not said here | the drawbridge | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient drawbridge=Result | ||||
| 3 | seek | participle · passive | the five hundred | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass not said to happen | to-infinitive | drawbridge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
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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