Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 53

But of all that company there was none sadder of heart than the King himself, when he thought how he had left his nephew Count Roland behind him in the passes of Spain.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, think, leave, pass · To what, where: nephew, passes, Spain · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 was	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 company	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 company	det
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sadder	cop
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 was	nsubj
9	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 heart	case
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sadder	obl
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 King	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sadder	obl
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 King	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 thought	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sadder	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 left	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 thought	ccomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nephew	nmod:poss
25	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obj
26	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Roland	compound
27	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 left	obj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 passes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 passes	det
32	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 left	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Spain	case
34	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 passes	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sadder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				of heart; than the King King; sad property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	King				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect	King	King's nephew	the passes of Spain	behind Roland; Count Roland obj	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nephew=Theme roland=Attribute
4	pass			Spain			nom pass «act transitive»: of=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 53