Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 51
A stalwart man was he, and his countenance was fair and smiling.
Who acts: stalwart man, Roland · What happens: be, smile · To what, where: Roland
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stalwart man, Roland), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | compound |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 he | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fair | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fair | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fair | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fair | cop |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smiling | cc |
| 13 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fair | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a stalwart man | Roland | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Roland | Roland's countenance nsubj; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | Roland not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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