Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 76
And when he had said this he looked round on that fair company of the dead, and his heart failed within him.
Who acts: Roland, this, heart · What happens: say, look round, fail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Roland, this, heart), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 company | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 company | amod |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dead | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dead | det |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 company | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 failed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 failed | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 failed | nsubj |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 22 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 failed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Roland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look round | past | this | on that fair company of the dead; Roland nsubj; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on company=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fail | past | Roland's heart | within Roland | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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