Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 31
And this was done, and in no long time the King and his army came to a place from which they could see the town of Troyes.
Who acts: King, Troyes · What happens: do, come, see · To what, where: this, place, 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 (King, Troyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 done | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 army | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 King | conj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 see | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Troyes | case |
| 28 | Troyes | troy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 town | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the King and King's army | a place | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | could | Troyes = troy | the town of Troyes | a place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus |
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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