Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 30
When the King heard this he commanded that the army should leave marching to Aygremont, and should turn aside to Troyes.
Who acts: King, army · What happens: hear, command, leave, march, turn · To what, where: this, Aygremont, Troyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, army), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 commanded | nsubj |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 army | det |
| 10 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 commanded | ccomp |
| 13 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 leave | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Aygremont | case |
| 15 | Aygremont | Aygremont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 marching | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turn | cc |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 turn | aux |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | conj |
| 20 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 19 turn | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Troyes | case |
| 22 | Troyes | troy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 turn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | command | past | King | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | should | the army | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | march | gerund | the army not said here | Aygremont | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aygremont=Result | ||||
| 5 | turn | should | the King not said here | Troyes | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to troy=Trajectory |
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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