Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 72
Then King Charles went with his lords into a chamber apart, and took counsel with them what should be done.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: go, take, do · To what, where: chamber, counsel
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 (Charles), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 lords | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lords | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chamber | det |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 10 chamber | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 done | obj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 took | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Charles King | a chamber | then | with King's lords | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | take | past | Charles King not said here | counsel | with chief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | should · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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