Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 24
So they unsaddled their horses, and laid themselves down on the green grass and slept.
Who acts: nobles · What happens: unsaddle, lay down, sleep · To what, where: horses, nobles, green grass
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 (nobles), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 unsaddled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unsaddled | nsubj |
| 3 | unsaddled | unsaddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 unsaddled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unsaddled | conj |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 laid | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 laid | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grass | amod |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slept | cc |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unsaddled | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unsaddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unsaddle | past | nobles = noble | nobles's horses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay down | past | nobles = noble not said here | nobles = noble | the green grass | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on grass=Destination | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | nobles = noble not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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