Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 1
Count Roland looked round on the mountain-sides and on the plains.
Who acts: you, Roland · What happens: count, look round
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | ccomp |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sides | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sides | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mountain | punct |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plains | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 plains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plains | det |
| 13 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sides | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | look round | past | Roland | on the mountain sides and the plains; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=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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