Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 35

King Charles has come again," they cried; "we are all as dead men.

Who acts: Charles, hills, we · What happens: come, cry, be

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, hills, we), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Charles	nmod:desc
2	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 men	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 men	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 men	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 men	cop
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 men	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 men	case
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	Charles King	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	hills = hill			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	we		as dead men; all property	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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 35