Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 42
Spurring his horse, he rode with all haste, and overtook the Prince ere ever he came to the wood.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: spur, ride, overtake, come · To what, where: horse, Prince ere, wood
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Spurring | spur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rode | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spurring | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spurring | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 haste | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 haste | det |
| 9 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overtook | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 overtook | cc |
| 12 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rode | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ere | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ere | compound |
| 15 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtook | obj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 overtook | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 overtook | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spur | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince's horse | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | Prince | with all haste | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | overtake | past | Prince not said here | the Prince ere | ever | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | Prince | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_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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