Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 80
There was a spring of water in the place, and he would fain give a draught to his comrade.
Who acts: spring, Roland · What happens: be, fain, give · To what, where: place, draught, comrade
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 (spring, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spring | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fain | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fain | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fain | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fain | aux |
| 14 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fain | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 draught | det |
| 17 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 comrade | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 20 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a spring of water | the place; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | fain | would | Roland | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | Roland not said here | a draught | Roland's comrade | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent draught=Theme to comrade=Recipient |
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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