Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 57
In the van and the rear sounded the trumpets as though they would answer Roland's horn.
Who acts: trumpets · What happens: sound, answer · To what, where: trumpets, van, horn
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 (trumpets), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 van | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 van | det |
| 3 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rear | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rear | det |
| 6 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 van | conj |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trumpets | det |
| 9 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sounded | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 sounded | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 answer | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answer | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 answer | aux |
| 14 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sounded | advcl |
| 15 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 horn | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Roland | case |
| 17 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answer | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the trumpets | the van and the rear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trumpet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | would | trumpets = trumpet | Roland's horn | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horn=Eventuality |
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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