Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 104
And when he saw how the head was severed from the body and the face sore disfigured with wounds he cried aloud.
Who acts: King, face · What happens: see, sever, disfigure, cry · To what, where: head, body, wounds · Speech: someone speaks here
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, face), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 severed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 severed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 severed | aux:pass |
| 9 | severed | sever | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 severed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 disfigured | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disfigured | nsubj |
| 16 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 17 | disfigured | disfigure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 severed | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wounds | case |
| 19 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 disfigured | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 22 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 21 cried | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sever | past · passive | the head | the body | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | disfigure | participle | the face | with wounds | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wound=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | King | wounds not said here | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Topic |
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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