Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 79

When the Archbishop saw him fall he reached out his hand and laid hold of the horn.

Who acts: Archbishop, Roland · What happens: see, fall, reach out, lay, hold · To what, where: hand, hold, horn

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 (Archbishop, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Archbishop	det
3	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	ccomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 reached	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laid	cc
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reached	conj
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 horn	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horn	det
17	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	the Archbishop		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	infinitive	Roland		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	reach out	past	Roland	Roland's hand	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	lay	past	Roland not said here	hold of the horn	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
5	hold			the horn	nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 79