Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 43

Roland blew his horn a third time, and when the King heard it he said, "He that blew that horn drew a deep breath."

Who acts: Roland, King, horn · What happens: blow, hear, say, draw · To what, where: horn, deep breath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, King, horn), 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	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horn	nmod:poss
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blew	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 blew	punct
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blew	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 blew	nsubj
21	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 horn	det
23	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 blew	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 breath	det
26	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breath	amod
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Roland	Roland's horn	time		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	hear	past	the King	horn			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	blow in a quote	past	King			that nsubj	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	draw in a quote	past	that horn	a deep breath			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

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, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 43