Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 61
And now there befell a new trouble.
What happens: befall · To what, where: new trouble
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 befell | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 befell | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 befell | advmod |
| 4 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trouble | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trouble | amod |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 befell | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | a new trouble | there | now | 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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