Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 59
Quickly did they leap to their feet, and fall to with their swords.
Who acts: belts · What happens: leap, fall · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belts), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 leap | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leap | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leap | nsubj |
| 4 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leap | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fall | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fall | cc |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leap | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fall | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 swords | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 swords | nmod:poss |
| 14 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fall | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past · do-support | belts = belt | belts's feet | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | belts = belt not said here | with belts's swords | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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