Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 51

But when they had passed through the valley, then they saw the fair land of Gascony, and as they saw it they thought of their homes and their wives and daughters.

Who acts: mountains · What happens: pass, see, think · To what, where: mountains, valley, fair land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 passed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 passed	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 saw	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Gascony	case
17	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 land	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 saw	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 homes	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 homes	nmod:poss
28	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thought	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wives	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wives	nmod:poss
31	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 homes	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 daughters	cc
33	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 homes	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		mountains = mountain	the valley			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through valley=Destination
2	see	past	mountains = mountain	the fair land of Gascony		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus
3	see	past	mountains = mountain	valley				tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	mountains = mountain				of mountains's homes and mountains's wives and daughters	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 51