Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 25
When all things had been prepared, the King and his army set out, his purpose being to besiege the town of Aygremont.
Who acts: things, King · What happens: prepare, set out, besiege, purpose · To what, where: things, purpose, town
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 set | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prepared | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 prepared | aux:pass |
| 6 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 things | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 army | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 army | nmod:poss |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 set | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 besiege | mark |
| 20 | besiege | besiege | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 being | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 besiege | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Aygremont | case |
| 24 | Aygremont | Aygremont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 town | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | all things not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | set out | past | all things | King's purpose | the King and King's army nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | besiege | to-infinitive | all things not said here | the town of Aygremont | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | purpose | King | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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