Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 58
So he and his knights followed Huon and his company, carrying the body of Charlot with them.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, carry · To what, where: Huon, body
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 followed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knights | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knights | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 company | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 company | nmod:poss |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Huon | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 followed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Charlot | case |
| 16 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 body | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carrying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Prince | Huon and Prince's company | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Prince not said here | the body of Charlot | with Charlot | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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