Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 103
And when the King saw the cart, he lighted down from his horse, and lifted the cloth that was upon the dead man.
Who acts: King, cloth · What happens: see, light down, lift, be · To what, where: cart, cloth
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, cloth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cart | det |
| 7 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lighted | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lighted | nsubj |
| 10 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 lighted | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lifted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lifted | cc |
| 17 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifted | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 man | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | cop |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | the cart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cart=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | light down | participle | King | from King's horse | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from horse=Material | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | the King not said here | the cloth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the cloth | upon the dead man | tree rules |
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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