Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 35
But when he would have gone to help them a great lion out of the forest flew on him.
Who acts: King · What happens: go, help, fly · To what, where: men
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 gone | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gone | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lion | amod |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 flew | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would · perfect | King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | King not said here | men = man | a great lion obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fly | past | King not said here | of the forest; on King | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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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