Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 95

While they were yet speaking, there came a messenger upon a horse, faint and weary and sorely wounded, and the King saw him pass the window where he stood.

Who acts: things, messenger, King, horse · What happens: speak, come, see, pass, stand · To what, where: horse, window · 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 (things, messenger, King, horse), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 speaking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	aux
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 speaking	advmod
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speaking	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 came	expl
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 messenger	det
10	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 messenger	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 faint	punct
15	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 horse	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 weary	cc
17	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 faint	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wounded	cc
19	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	20 wounded	advmod
20	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 faint	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saw	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	obj
27	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saw	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pass	obj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 stood	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 window	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	things = thing			yet	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	a messenger upon a horse		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	the King	horse			tree rules
4	pass	infinitive	horse not said here	the window			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory
5	stand	past	King				vn assuming_position-50 «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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 95