Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 59
Huon, when he was come to Paris, went in and stood before the King, and told him what things had befallen him.
Who acts: Huon · What happens: come, go in, stand, tell, befall · To what, where: Prince, Paris, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Huon), 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 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux:pass |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Huon | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Paris | case |
| 8 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Huon | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 befallen | obj |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 befallen | aux |
| 24 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 told | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 befallen | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | Prince | Paris | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | Huon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | Huon not said here | before the King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Huon not said here | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | befall | past · perfect · passive | things | what obj; Prince obj | tree rules |
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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