Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 79
It chanced that we came to a little wood, and there we cast our hawks, and one of the hawks was lost.
Who acts: purpose, we · What happens: chance, come, cast, lose · To what, where: little wood, hawks, one
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 (purpose, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chanced | nsubj |
| 2 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chanced | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cast | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 cast | expl |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 cast | nsubj |
| 14 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chanced | conj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hawks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cast | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lost | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lost | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hawks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hawks | det |
| 22 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux:pass |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chanced | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | purpose | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | we | a little wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cast | present | we | our hawks | there | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Product | |||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | one of the hawks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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