Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 92
First they charged on horseback, breaking both of them their spears, and with so great a shock that their horses fell to the ground.
Who acts: Huon, horses · What happens: charge, break, fall · To what, where: horseback, both
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, horses), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 charged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 horseback | case |
| 5 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaking | punct |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 charged | advcl |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 breaking | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 both | nmod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 breaking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 great | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 great | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 great | advmod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 charged | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shock | det |
| 19 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 great | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 fell | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shock | 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 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | past | Huon | horseback | first property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horseback=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | break | gerund | Huon not said here | both of Huon | Huon's spears obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent both=Patient spear=Result | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Huon's horses | to the ground | 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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