Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 33
The King of Spain was sitting under a pine-tree on a throne that was covered with silk of Alexandria.
Who acts: King · What happens: sit, cover · To what, where: pine tree, throne
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Spain | case |
| 4 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pine | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 throne | det |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux:pass |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 throne | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 silk | case |
| 19 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Alexandria | case |
| 21 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 silk | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the King of Spain | a pine tree | on a throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | a throne | with silk of Alexandria | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with silk=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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