Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 8
He was a giant of great stature, with fiery eyes and skin as black as pitch, more like to a devil than to a man.
Who acts: Gallafer · What happens: be · To what, where: giant
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 (Gallafer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 giant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 giant | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stature | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stature | amod |
| 7 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giant | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 giant | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 skin | cc |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eyes | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 black | case |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 pitch | case |
| 17 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 black | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 devil | punct |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 devil | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 devil | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 devil | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 devil | det |
| 23 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giant | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 devil | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gallafer | a giant and fiery eyes and skin and a devil than a man | of great stature; fiery eyes and skin conj; a devil than a man conj | tree rules |
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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