Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 25
After a while Balan saw his daughter where she stood at a window with certain of the knights, and reproached her for her disobedience, and threatened that he would burn her with fire.
Who acts: Balan, daughter · What happens: see, stand, reproach, threaten, burn, disobey · To what, where: window, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balan, daughter), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 certain | case |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stood | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knights | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knights | det |
| 18 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 certain | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reproached | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reproached | cc |
| 21 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reproached | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 disobedience | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 25 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reproached | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 threatened | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 threatened | cc |
| 28 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 burn | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 burn | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 burn | aux |
| 32 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 threatened | advcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 burn | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 fire | case |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 burn | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Balan | while | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Balan's daughter | a window | with certain of the knights | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 3 | reproach | past | Balan not said here | daughter | for daughter's disobedience | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for disobedience=Attribute | |||
| 4 | threaten | past | Balan not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | burn | would | Balan | daughter | with fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with fire=Instrument | |||
| 6 | disobey | daughter | nom disobedience «act 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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