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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 69

So the Duke went, but when he came to the great gate of the palace there was the body of Prince Charlot lying on a shield and borne by four knights.

Who acts: Duke, body · What happens: go, come, lie, bear · To what, where: great gate, shield

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 (Duke, body), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctccadvmodnsubjconjcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodexplacl:relcldetnsubjcasenmodflataclcasedetoblccconjcasenummodoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETDukePROPNwentVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJwhenADVhePRONcameVERBtoADPtheDETgreatADJgateNOUNofADPtheDETpalaceNOUNtherePRONwasAUXtheDETbodyNOUNofADPPrincePROPNCharlotPROPNlyingVERBonADPaDETshieldNOUNandCCONJborneVERBbyADPfourNUMknightsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 wentadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Dukedet
3DukeDukePROPNNumber=Sing4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_9 camepunct
6butbutCCONJ_9 camecc
7whenwhenADVPronType=Int9 cameadvmod
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 camensubj
9camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
10totoADP_13 gatecase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 gatedet
12greatgreatADJDegree=Pos13 gateamod
13gategateNOUNNumber=Sing9 cameobl
14ofofADP_16 palacecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 palacedet
16palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing13 gatenmod
17theretherePRONPronType=Dem18 wasexpl
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 palaceacl:relcl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 bodydet
20bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing18 wasnsubj
21ofofADP_22 Princecase
22PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing20 bodynmod
23CharlotCharlotPROPNNumber=Sing22 Princeflat
24lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger20 bodyacl
25ononADP_27 shieldcase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 shielddet
27shieldshieldNOUNNumber=Sing24 lyingobl
28andandCCONJ_29 bornecc
29bornebearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 shieldconj
30bybyADP_32 knightscase
31fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card32 knightsnummod
32knightsknightNOUNNumber=Plur29 borneobl
33..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastthe Dukevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2comepastDukethe great gate of the palacevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
3liegerundthe body of Prince not said herea shieldvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shield=Location
4bearparticiplethe body of Prince not said hereby four knightsvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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