Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 52
Fain would he have followed after the enemy; but he could not.
What happens: follow · To what, where: Fain
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: 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 | Fain | Fain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 followed | aux |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 enemy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enemy | det |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 could | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 could | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 could | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | would · perfect · passive | Fain | after the enemy | 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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