Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 50
So, the steel entering his brain, he fell dead upon the ground.
Who acts: steel · What happens: enter, fall · To what, where: brain, ground
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 (steel), 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 | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 steel | det |
| 4 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 steel | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brain | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entering | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 steel | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the steel not said here | Prince's brain | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brain=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the steel | the ground | Prince nsubj; dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=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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