Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 44
And then--this was his dream--a fair greyhound came and attacked the greatest of these wild beasts.
Who acts: this, fair greyhound · What happens: be, come, attack · To what, where: dream, greatest
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 (this, fair greyhound), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dream | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dream | advmod |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 dream | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dream | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 dream | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 greyhound | det |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 greyhound | amod |
| 11 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 attacked | cc |
| 14 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 greatest | det |
| 16 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 attacked | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 beasts | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 beasts | det |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beasts | amod |
| 20 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 greatest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | King's dream | then | King nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | come | past | a fair greyhound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attack | past | a fair greyhound not said here | the greatest of this wild beasts | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Patient |
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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