Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 46

When the King heard this he dismounted in great wrath, and ran at the giant, and smote him with Joyous so rudely that he fell to the ground nigh cut in twain.

Who acts: King · What happens: hear, dismount, run, smote, fall, cut · To what, where: this, great wrath, King, twain

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), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismounted	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dismounted	nsubj
7	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wrath	case
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wrath	amod
10	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dismounted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismounted	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 giant	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 smote	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 smote	cc
19	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dismounted	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 smote	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 Joyous	case
22	Joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 smote	obl
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 rudely	advmod
24	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	19 smote	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 smote	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	32 cut	advmod
32	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fell	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 twain	case
34	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the King	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	dismount	past	King		great wrath		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	run	past	King not said here			at the giant	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at giant=Trajectory
4	smote	infinitive	King not said here	King		with Joyous; rudely property	tree rules
5	fall	past	King			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
6	cut	participle	King not said here		twain	nigh property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 46

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 46