Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 37
When King Charles heard it he rose up forthwith from his ambush in the wood, and all the Frenchmen with him, and made for the bridge with all the speed they might use.
Who acts: King, Frenchmen · What happens: hear, rise up, make, use, ambush · To what, where: horn, Frenchmen, ambush, speed, wood
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 (King, Frenchmen), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 rose | compound:prt |
| 9 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 12 ambush | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 ambush | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ambush | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ambush | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Frenchmen | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Frenchmen | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Frenchmen | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Frenchmen | det |
| 20 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 rose | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Frenchmen | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Frenchmen | acl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 bridge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bridge | det |
| 28 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 speed | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 speed | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 speed | det |
| 32 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bridge | nmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 use | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 use | aux |
| 35 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 speed | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise up | past | King | all Frenchmen with Duke | King's ambush in the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ambush=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | make | participle | all Frenchmen with Duke not said here | for the bridge with all speed | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for bridge=Asset | ||||
| 4 | use | might | Frenchmen = frenchman | all speed not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Patient | ||||
| 5 | ambush | King | the wood | nom ambush «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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