Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 38
When King Charles heard these words he bent his head as one deep in thought.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, bend · To what, where: words, head
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bent | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bent | nsubj |
| 8 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bent | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 deep | mark |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 deep | nummod |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bent | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deep | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bend | past | King | King's head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
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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