Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 149
The good steel pierced shield and corslet, and the King fell dead upon the field. "
Who acts: King · What happens: pierce, fall · To what, where: pierced shield
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steel | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steel | amod |
| 3 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shield | nsubj |
| 4 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shield | amod |
| 5 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 corslet | cc |
| 7 | corslet | corslet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shield | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shield | acl:relcl |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shield | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | participle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | the King | pierced shield the good steel and corslet not said here | upon the field; dead property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shield=Result |
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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