Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 218
When King Charles was come back to the fair town of Aachen, it was told him that a fair lady desired to see him.
Who acts: Charles, fair lady · What happens: be, tell, desire, see · To what, where: town, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Charles, fair lady), 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 | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | cop |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Aachen | case |
| 12 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 town | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 come | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 desired | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 desired | nsubj |
| 22 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 told | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 desired | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Charles King | to the fair town of Aachen; come property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | town | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | desire | participle | a fair lady | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | a fair lady not said here | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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