Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 59
As these two were talking, Fierabras came up, being now healed of his wounds, and asked where was the King.
Who acts: two, Fierabras · What happens: talk, come up, heal, ask, be, wound · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two, Fierabras), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 talking | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 7 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 healed | punct |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 healed | aux:pass |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 healed | advmod |
| 13 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wounds | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 healed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 King | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 King | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | this two | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come up | past | Fierabras | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | heal | gerund · passive | Fierabras not said here | now | of Fierabras's wounds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wound | Fierabras | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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