Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 68
It was seen that as she lay upon the earth she vomited forth fire from her throat, but she never moved more.
Who acts: destruction · What happens: see, lie, vomit, not move · To what, where: bolt, earth, fire, throat, more
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 (destruction), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 vomited | mark |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 lay | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vomited | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 vomited | nsubj |
| 12 | vomited | vomit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | advcl |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 vomited | advmod |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vomited | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 throat | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 throat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fire | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 moved | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 moved | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 moved | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 moved | advmod |
| 22 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | conj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 moved | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | bolt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | destruction | the earth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | vomit | past | destruction | fire | destruction's throat | forth property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||
| 4 | not move | past | destruction | more | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
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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