Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 27
The Saracen cast his eyes on Ganelon, and saw that he was of a fair countenance, but had an evil look.
Who acts: Saracen, Blancandrin · What happens: cast, see, be, have · To what, where: eyes, Ganelon, evil look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracen, Blancandrin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Saracen | det |
| 2 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cast | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Ganelon | case |
| 7 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 countenance | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 countenance | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 countenance | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 countenance | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 countenance | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 countenance | amod |
| 17 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 look | det |
| 22 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 look | amod |
| 23 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | the Saracen | Blancandrin's eyes | Ganelon | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on ganelon=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | the Saracen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Blancandrin | of a fair countenance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the Saracen not said here | a evil look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
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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