Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 88
But men noted that Amaury, when he would have mounted his horse, stumbled so that he had well-nigh fallen to the ground.
Who acts: men, man · What happens: note, mount, stumble, fall · To what, where: Amaury, horse
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 (men, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 noted | cc |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noted | nsubj |
| 3 | noted | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 Amaury | mark |
| 5 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 noted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 mounted | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mounted | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 mounted | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mounted | aux |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 noted | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stumbled | punct |
| 15 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mounted | conj |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 fallen | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fallen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fallen | aux |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 fallen | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 22 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 23 fallen | advmod |
| 23 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 stumbled | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fallen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past | men | Amaury | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mount | would · perfect | man | man's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stumble | participle | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | man | to the ground; nigh, well property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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